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Issues compiling .less file locally on iPad

Here's the code where it fails to load the file:

function xhr(url, type, callback, errback) {
    var xhr = getXMLHttpRequest();
    var async = isFileProtocol ? less.fileAsync : less.async;
    if (typeof(xhr.overrideMimeType) === 'function') {
        xhr.overrideMimeType('text/css');
    }
    xhr.open('GET', url, async);
    xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', type || 'text/x-less, text/css; q=0.9, */*; q=0.5');
    xhr.send(null);

It fails at "xhr.send(null);" in line 4261 when executed from a file:// url in Safari.

12 years ago

Issues compiling .less file locally on iPad

I've downloaded your files locally to my Mac. When I try to use it locally in Safari (with the file:// protocol), it doesn't work either.

The same file does work in Firefox though, but not in Chrome and Safari.

The current version of Less seems to use XMLHttpRequest, which doesn't work with the file:// protocol - at least in WebKit.

So, this seems to be a bug in Less.

12 years ago

Issues compiling .less file locally on iPad

Please have a look at the discussion in this topic: http://feedback.textasticapp.com/topic/80258-i-have-been-trying-to-use-textastic-with-less-lesscssorg-and-i-have-been-unable-to-get-it-to-preview-the-html-file-correctly/

There you will find an example of how to to use less.css.

Another user there reported a problem with Twitter's Bootstrap, but there is a workaround.

12 years ago

Textmate bundle

If you install the bundle, there should be a "Monkey" entry in the list of syntax definitions which should be selected automatically if you open files with the "monkey" file extension.

I've made a screenshots of how it looks on my machine: