If some putatively "creative" person has taken the effort to learn HTML and CSS, then they're already working in an area which to them may as well be programming -- odd as that may sound to an actual programmer. (And besides, isn't a significant portion of jQuery's audience comprised of web designers? What does that tell you?)
I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass. As the article makes quite clear, it's conceptually simple and provides obvious maintainability advantages. If anything, it subtracts rather than adds complexity.
> I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass.
Would it be hard to believe still if person after person told you so flat out? Because this is the primary reason people say "no thanks" to Sass (and all other html/css empowering macro languages, etc).
Well, except they don't use the word "intimidated", they say that they don't need html/css to get any more complicated, it's fine as it is.
"except they don't use the word "intimidated", they say that they don't need html/css to get any more complicated, it's fine as it is."
I don't know who you've been observing, but in my experience as a web designer, with a bit over 15 years in the industry, is that web designers are constantly moaning about the limitations of HTML and CSS and hate the slow pace of change (or, to be more accurate, the slow pace of the demise of the IE browsers). They're also hungry to learn more and push the boundaries of current knowledge and practise. You only have to look at the coding section of Smashing Magazine, the most popular web design site online, to see that web designers are in no way the sort who are going to be intimidated or uninterested in Sass.
In fact, the debate regarding the evolution of CSS on, and my impression is that there is serious pressure on CSS to change and evolve, judging by the comments here:
I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass. As the article makes quite clear, it's conceptually simple and provides obvious maintainability advantages. If anything, it subtracts rather than adds complexity.