[seedit] Re: CSS Editors
- From: Dean Hill <mdeanhill@xxxxxxx>
- To: seeditmaxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:45:52 -0800
Chuck,
You have to watch out for me. I get enthusiastic a lot. :-) Just kidding.
To put my enthusiasm in perspective, my knowledge of Xyle Scope is from briefly
working with it after I found it by "accident" in a Google search for Mac CSS
editors.
It got high praise in a review roundup on the CSS-Tricks web site
(http://css-tricks.com/170-reviews-of-mac-css-editors/) and I clicked the link
and found the software with the note about being discontinued and that the last
version was now free.
Chris Coyer at CSS-Tricks really liked it as a troubleshooting tool, and a good
tool that can find my CSS flaws and help me clean up my code would be a
blessing from heaven, literally.
It has broader applications though. I saw one reference to where you can use
its browser approach to connect to a URL on the web and use it to deeply study
the underlying structure of the page/site. I saw one comment where the user
said it was helping him learn page and CSS structure. Interesting.
Even though the last version is a couple of years old, it still seems to
function, and I'm going to use it while I work in SEEdit on a couple of current
projects.
As for Cultured Code, they are concentrating their efforts on a "to do" product
called Things, which has won awards and gotten high praise from MacWorld and in
other publications. Things also is available through the App Store.
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Chuck, I love your suggestion about getting Sven involved in a possible Xyle
Scope resurrection. :-)
Dean...
PS. My apologies to everyone on this list for writing so much about this. I
hadn't meant to. Maybe it's a way of procrastinating because I've got a couple
of large projects due. :-)
If you want to converse more about this, feel free to contact me off-list at:
mdeanhill@xxxxxxx
On Nov 14, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Chuck Miller wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Dean Hill wrote:
>
>> Thanks for looking into it. I read some more on Xyle Scope and the program
>> actually works like a browser in that you open a URL or .html file and it
>> connects to the CSS and DOM that way. Very ingenious.
>>
>> To use it with SEEdit, it appears that it would have to be listed as a
>> Browser rather than a CSS editor.
>>
>> Sadly, the folks at Cultured Code told me they stopped developing Xyle Scope
>> a couple of years ago because it wasn't a profitable enterprise. I have a
>> feeling it's the kind of application that would have done very well if the
>> Apple Apps Store were functioning back then. :-)
>>
>> Anyway, thank you for the awesome support you provide Sven, and, of course
>> for your marvelous software. Love the 8.0alpha I just downloaded. :-)
>
>
> Perhaps the folks at Culture Code could give Xyle Scope or the basic code for
> it to Mr. Swen E. Olsson - so that their "child" could continue to enjoy
> life. Donate it, since Mr. Olsson is not a high roller. He's more like they
> (sound like they) are.
>
> I'll sign an online petition saying that Swen is a stand up / stand out guy
> who would use Xyle Scope respectfully.
>
> Of course, that is if it's useful in the SEEdit context. Dean's enthusiasm is
> contagious, but I have no personal knowledge.
>
>
> Chuck M
>
>
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