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> I'm surprised nobody has thought of this sooner Firefox already has a Responsive Design Mode [0] that does this, but for one pane. Combine that with a tiling

by Seirdy 6y ago

> I'm surprised nobody has thought of this sooner Firefox already has a Responsive Design Mode [0] that does this, but for one pane. Combine that with a tiling window manager and you get everything except the pane mirroring without having to use a proprietary browser. I'd be interested in knowing if any other solutions exist just to add in the syncing functionality. Edit: a comment mentioned Browsersync [1]. Browsersync + a proper window manager should give you everything Polypane offers and more, with any browser. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_Design_Mode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_De...

trashburger 6y ago
BrowserSync[0] has syncing different tabs, reloading the page on code changes, layout mode, and many other features. It basically does what Polypane seems to do, and it's FOSS. The only thing missing is, as you mentioned, multiple windows side-by-side, and you can pretty much do that manually (or with a tiling WM - which you already mentioned). [0]: https://www.browsersync.io/ https://www.browsersync.io/
- dragonshed 6y ago
  browsersync is nice but it's just a different approach (proxying for multiple clients/tabs) with its own tradeoffs. Polypane is one browser tab (1 debugger, 1 css editor, etc) with multiple viewports, so there's no extra hassle or window-management involved when inspecting an element, editing a style, hitting a breakpoint, etc.
konart 6y ago
All chromium browsers had this for a long time. The point is - nobody really provided a feature to have N views with different resolutions for the same source
- ricardobeat 6y ago
  Blisk, Sizzy have been around for a while and do exactly this. Plus I remember something (maybe Rocketmelt?) offering a similar feature waaay back.
  - konart 6y ago
    We stand corrected then.
- edjroot 6y ago
  There's also Emmet Re:view, an open source Chrome extension (apparently not actively developed though, and I've never used it): https://github.com/emmetio/re-view https://github.com/emmetio/re-view

by Seirdy 6y ago

trashburger 6y ago

BrowserSync[0] has syncing different tabs, reloading the page on code changes, layout mode, and many other features. It basically does what Polypane seems to do, and it's FOSS. The only thing missing is, as you mentioned, multiple windows side-by-side, and you can pretty much do that manually (or with a tiling WM - which you already mentioned). [0]: https://www.browsersync.io/ https://www.browsersync.io/

dragonshed 6y ago
browsersync is nice but it's just a different approach (proxying for multiple clients/tabs) with its own tradeoffs. Polypane is one browser tab (1 debugger, 1 css editor, etc) with multiple viewports, so there's no extra hassle or window-management involved when inspecting an element, editing a style, hitting a breakpoint, etc.

konart 6y ago

All chromium browsers had this for a long time. The point is - nobody really provided a feature to have N views with different resolutions for the same source

ricardobeat 6y ago
Blisk, Sizzy have been around for a while and do exactly this. Plus I remember something (maybe Rocketmelt?) offering a similar feature waaay back.
- konart 6y ago
  We stand corrected then.
edjroot 6y ago
There's also Emmet Re:view, an open source Chrome extension (apparently not actively developed though, and I've never used it): https://github.com/emmetio/re-view https://github.com/emmetio/re-view