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It's always exciting to bump into, meet or find out about someone who can see interesting possibilities where others see nothing. I don't know Joe, but he seem
by CoffeeDregs 15y ago
It's always exciting to bump into, meet or find out about someone who can see interesting possibilities where others see nothing. I don't know Joe, but he seems like one of those people (Firebug, FTW!).
At the same time, I'm always kind of bummed when those people are snapped up by a large company because their ability to produce the mind-binding ideas seems diminished or, at least, less visible among the many large accomplishments/events of a large company. Good to see that one of the lateral thinkers is returning to where we can more easily see his ideas in practice.
Firebug: I remember the first time I left behind the edit-save-refresh-cry-because-my-padding-was-wrong cycle of HTML/CSS development for the Firebug-driven-tweaks flow. Excellent.
- noibl 15y agoRe 'Firebug-driven-tweaks flow' [Sorry if this is OT] With Stylebot when you make these kinds of tweaks it builds up a supplementary ruleset in a single location that you can afterwards copy and transfer to your CSS file. With Firebug it's relatively tricky to make sure you transfer all the tweaks you just did. Feature request. :)
- CoffeeDregs 15y ago> [Sorry if this is OT] Nah. You were on-topic (at least, on-topic for my off-topic bit...). Agreed. The Firebug-driven-tweak cycle ain't lovely, but it's positively gorgeous when compared to the old ways... And thanks for the pointer to Stylebot. Checking it out now.
- hboon 15y agoAlso see http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/. Mac-only.
- joehewitt 15y agoMaking it easy to save Firebug CSS changes back to the source file was at the top of my todo list in 2007, and I was really bummed that I didn't get the chance to build it. Years later the Backfire extension came out, which does alleviate some of the pain of saving CSS, but I still think there's room for improvement.
- madewulf 15y agoFor the line of JetBrains IDE (PyCharm, IntelliJ, PhPStorm), there is a wonderful plugin, called css-x-fire that allows to save all tweaks you did in Firebug back to your source file. It gave me hours of life back.... I bet there exist something similar for lots of IDE.
- Griever 15y agoWoah. Just installed this and I'm getting that giddy feeling a web developer rarely feels when doing CSS editing. This is a godsend! Thanks :D
- csomar 15y agoI have switched to "Stylizer" for CSS editing and have never looked back. Firebug is pretty good for JavaScript and DOM. Chrome for profiling and the network.
- mdpm 15y agoare you aware of https://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/ https://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/ ? Round trip editing is ... life altering. I've enjoyed webstorm, and that add-in is really the icing on the cake. edit: ... and then I read the next comment :)