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CSSEdit -- A feature-laden CSS editor
Authored by: robg on Sep 30, '04 08:23:53AM

I hadn't found StyleMaster in my search for a CSS editor. However, I just downloaded it and spent a few minutes with it. It's clearly well done, but I have a couple issues with it that still leave me preferring CSSEdit.

First, and biggest, is the fact that you can only display one "editor" box at a time. So if you're laying out a top-level style with font, border, position, background, etc., you'll be switching between the various editors quite a bit -- unless, and this is clearly the leaning of the program -- you prefer to work in text mode, where you just type your style info directly. CSSEdit manages to cleanly make all of the editors available with a mouse click; granted, you can change the editor in StyleMaster with a button click, but it's visually slower and more distracting with the drawer.

Second, as noted above, it's over 2x more costly than CSSEdit.

I also checked out the freebie Firefox extensions (since I use Firefox all the time), and they are useful ... but they won't replace CSSEdit for me, since they are *not* intuitive and don't make it easy to understand the CSS syntax. But they are great for looking at a site's CSS, and I love the other features in the Web Developer extension.

-rob.



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