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better solution for tinkering with others CSS
Authored by: alec kinnear on Sep 30, '04 01:40:12AM

there is a better way to learn about others CSS. install firefox (some of these tools work in camino and some don't, so better just to install firefox) and add the Web Developer extension.

tinker with the admired site's CSS to your heart's content. see your changes in real time. when satisfied copy the modified CSS out into the text editor of your choice.

free and more impressive than CSS Edit.

whiterabbit is charging too much for some primitive CSS visualisation features. if you would like another tool to help with web and CSS chores, there's a lot more joy to be had in $20 of skEdit.

white rabbit is a sharp designer however.

you'd do better to steal his CSS than buy his editor.



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better solution for tinkering with others CSS
Authored by: cutterchgo on Sep 30, '04 03:07:45AM

CSSEdit quickly became my righthand utility (next to BBEdit) when I started moving into standards-based web development. Some purists (a title that I often put on myself) may feel that the gui may get in the way or handicap the user but the fluid interchange between gui and text editing (text with intelligent autofill features that really work well) has kept it in my arsenal months after I've become familiar with the syntax and no longer need the gui for editing. The grouping and quickfiltering against style names and source alone is well worth the price for managing large stylesheets.

Stylemaster, too, is a powerful editor with many of the same features and even a few others. I feel that both could serve equally as well but stylemaster was a bit harder to learn and I had already become very familiar with CSSEdit.

You can slam it all ya want or claim that text-based-only editing is the *only* way to go but this is the only tool I've found that will help ease novices into the new world of standards-based CSS designs while simultaneously offering power-users all of the editing shortcuts and direct-editing features that they need. The searching and organizational features are icing on the cake that increase productivity tremendously. Give this piece of software a try, it's well worth $20. In retrospect, I think it's worth considerably more considering it's polish and utlility.

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