Robert van der Elst

Front End Designer

Sep 28, 2015

Both actually, but not intentionally ;) I tend to use tabs in CSS files and spaces in jQuery. Don't know why, it's sort of automatic.

And now Sublime uses 2 spaces for indentation in CSS and I keep it that way...

Everything will be minified anyway, so why bother having a war over white space? ;)

RV

Robert van der Elst

Front End Designer

Sep 29, 2015

Ah, I agree. But I'm pretty much on my own where I work. It can't hurt to choose either tabs or spaces, but frankly, I don't care which. At the job before this one I used 4 spaces and so did everyone else really. But again, it's nothing to start a war over, right?

JV

Jan Vladimir Mostert

Idea Incubator

Sep 28, 2015

True that a machine will eventually read code in a minified / compiled form, but humans have to maintain it.

Somebody suggested creating an IDE plugin which will format the code according to your preference and commit it according to the style guide policy. I think that's a good middleground, if the company wants spaces, you work in tabs and while committing it, it gets committed in spaces and vise versa.

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