JavaScript addicts

A few months ago, Daniel Glazman and David Hyatt have written a proposal for CSS variables. This is a great step forward and hopefully we will find cross browser implementations some time soon.

In this article I will show how you can use CSS variables to optimize CSS. In the second part of this series you will learn how to use CSS variables efficiently in themeing applications (using the Dijit themes of the Dojo toolkit) and in the last part we will take a look how we can deal with all the new technology and convert it into a cross-browser solution with the help of a little bit of server-side magic.
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