Please do not attack me about this idea, I have had it for a while now and thought it might interest some one.
Among the new HTML tools out now they all have the really nice Safari webkit live render view. My idea was after seeing the small demo application in developer tools called sketch. I was wondering if it is at all possible to somehow use it with the safari webkit and code editing.
My idea work flow would be like this: Make a basic site and tags with HTML CSS and XML. Then the Webkit would render the page live. A 'tweak' button could then be pressed to make all of the tags of div, padding, and margin boxes into sketch boxes that could be rescaled and repositioned for a tweaking purpose with handles, in addition text could be edited via the webkits render in tweak phase.
As all CSS is is just boxes like so :
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/images/boxdim.gif
So it just seems natural to visually edit the box by hand.
Well that is my idea. The live resizeing and repostioning would affect the codes cord numbers that is all. Like eg:
.div box {
position: relative;
width:100%
margin-left: 0%;
margin-top: -35px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px ;
}
Could become
.div box {
position: relative;
width:50%
margin-left: 20%;
margin-top: -15px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px ;
}
Notes: As I have been questioned before. I can try a FAQ's
AT: WYSIWYG is just wrong.
AW: TRUE wysiwyg is messy and wrong, and I am not trying to make a pure WYSI.... They are just to pokey and mishmash code.
AT: Then what is this?
AW: It is a 'tweek' tool and nothing more. You can not draw boxes or add to it unless you create the code for it first hand.
AT: But code is the strongest method of web site building.
AW: Again, true. This is just a tweek tool, you still must get your hands dirty with code as code it what makes the world go round.
AT: Then what the hell is this 'tweek' tool for ?
AW: Speed and instant visual feedback via the fastest power in the world, your mouse!
AT: Okay then, are you a coder? How mush will you pay me to build this 'tool' for you.
AW: I am not a C++ or C coder at all. I can do web design but that is as far as I am right now. I am willing to assist in helping any way I can even if it means coding by instruction by a tutor over ichat or aim.
I can pay a little if needed, but I am not looking for a dreamweaver killer app, as that kind of app takes multitudes of coders to preform the tack of createing such a massive tool. I just want some Quick Apple Cocoa powered visual tools. ( I have other tools I want besides web development, but a good web design program will help in millions of ways towards the goals set in stone).
So that is it. You might see this in a popular message board somewhere, as I am serious in finding eiter a coder to help with my vision or someone willing to teach me to create this vision.
Thank you ^v^ Trip .
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