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CSSEdit -- A feature-laden CSS editor
Authored by: aranor on Sep 30, '04 01:35:28PM

I've considered purchasing CSSEdit but I don't know if it's worth the cost. I'm very fluent in CSS already so I'd mostly use CSSEdit for the nice display and so I don't have to hit up Eric Meyer's CSS 2 Reference page as much (for when I forget the exact name of an attribute, or the list of accepted values, etc).

That's why I haven't bought it yet. And because of the 2500 character limit, I haven't used it much yet either (since my CSS pages are generally of a decent size.

Is it worth the $25 for somebody already very fluent in CSS?

And no, I'm not even considering Style Master. I can't imagine what it could possibly do that makes it worth $60.



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CSSEdit -- A feature-laden CSS editor
Authored by: brising on Sep 30, '04 02:59:04PM

I've always wondered if it could be worth $60. The tutorials that WesternCiv has are really good for learning the purpose of CSS, though.



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tutorials are what are worth the price
Authored by: alec kinnear on Sep 30, '04 10:54:28PM

Style Master would be terribly overpriced, but it includes a fantastic package of CSS tutorial and reference which is built into the program. That's what makes it worthwhile. It's like having a teacher with you.

Granted most of us doing this work professionally now know most of the stuff in those tutorials off by heart. But for somebody beginning with CSS or early intermediate, they are a godsend.

On the other hand, CSSEdit has no value-added. It doesn't teach or explain or troubleshoot or have any built-in snippets for box model hacks. It is just a slightly customised variant of the Cocoa text-edit tools slanted towards CSS display. And it's just not as stable as BBEdit or any of the serious text editing applications. Hard editing can bring CSSEdit down at just the most inopportune time.

At a slightly lower price, it would be a nice add-on. Another way to view one's CSS when bored of looking at in the conventional way.



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