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I’ve just found a very interesting framework designed for Python/AJAX developers.
It’s called Kinetic Style Sheets, or KSS for short, and it’s goal is to use CSS with some additional syntax to pass marshalled data from server back to the client to manipulate the DOM without using a single line of JavaScript (most of the times).
Apparently it’s included in PLONE 3.0, a new version of framework I’ve used some time back, but due to my migration to lighter frameworks (TurboGears/Django) existence of KSS had evaded my attention until now.
“So what’s so hot about Kinetic Style Sheets?” you may ask “Does it move things?”… Well pretty much 
But that’s not the killer feat.
It’s designed for Python developers who wish to keep their nose in Python code as much as possible avoiding hairy JavaScript(browser) world.
It’s also designed not to break compatibility with JavaScript-disabled browsers.
Well that’s that for wetting appetite… It’s time to get a bite of this framework, and then I’ll be back with more thoughts.
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