Cross-browser RGBA support has long been one of those web design holy-grails, more often than not resulting in our old friend Internet Explorer frustrating us yet again.

Last week I released a Compass plugin that makes wild promises – actual cross browser RGBA support! Well, sort of…

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The problem with CSS pre-processing frameworks is that they don’t really fit within the average web designers’ work flow. Or they don’t mine, anyway.

Having to compile and recompile at every iteration is just a pain in the backside, it’s not the way I work. I like to make some tweaks, view them in the browser, make more tweaks, view them in the browser, and repeat.

When you add in to that the process of going to the command line and recompiling, all of a sudden writing CSS becomes a dull slog. Not the way I like to work.

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