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Jan Van Boghout · Mar 13, 2004, 03:31 PM

I'm pleased to announce CSSEdit 1.6, with tons of optimizations, bug fixes and feature additions. Check it out at http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/ .

A full list of what's new: http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/versionhistory.html
Direct download link: http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/CSSEdit.dmg

Enjoy!

iOliverC · Mar 13, 2004, 03:40 PM

Nice update, keep up the good work

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sandsl · Mar 13, 2004, 05:24 PM

Yup, nice update thanks - CSSEdit is still the only piece of shareware I've bought myself

Nice update to the website too. Hows CSSEdit 2 coming along? Anything to tell us yet

? I notice adam betts is doing the icons for it...

Jan Van Boghout · Mar 13, 2004, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by sandsl:
Hows CSSEdit 2 coming along? Anything to tell us yet ? I notice adam betts is doing the icons for it...

Not much to say yet. Still mostly ideas and lots of separate projects on my hard drive

sandsl · Mar 13, 2004, 05:32 PM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
Not much to say yet. Still mostly ideas and lots of separate projects on my hard drive

Well I won't rush you

keep up the good work! Off topic but are you working on anything else cool?

Jan Van Boghout · Mar 13, 2004, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by sandsl:
Well I won't rush you keep up the good work! Off topic but are you working on anything else cool?

I don't have any major new apps coming, but let's just say CSSEdit isn't the only one going to version 2

Jan Van Boghout · Mar 14, 2004, 05:55 PM

Little update: I just released 1.6.1 which fixes a crash on launch for Jaguar users and adds some minor stuff

Amorya · Mar 14, 2004, 06:58 PM

Just downloaded this program for the first time. It looks good, but I have one suggestion.

In the righthand pane, it shows all the available options, whether they're applied to the currently chosen style or not.

I suggest that you only show the options that are part of the current style. Have all the other options in a floating pallette (with the tabs across the top like the main window has now), and you click on one to add it to the main window.

It's late so I'm tired - sorry if I'm uncoherent. If you want this explained better I'll try a mockup later.

Amorya

Jan Van Boghout · Mar 14, 2004, 07:11 PM

Originally posted by Amorya:
Just downloaded this program for the first time. It looks good, but I have one suggestion.

In the righthand pane, it shows all the available options, whether they're applied to the currently chosen style or not.

I suggest that you only show the options that are part of the current style. Have all the other options in a floating pallette (with the tabs across the top like the main window has now), and you click on one to add it to the main window.

It's late so I'm tired - sorry if I'm uncoherent. If you want this explained better I'll try a mockup later.

Amorya

You're making sense

I don't think that would work well though, you'd have a constantly changing set of controls, even depending on which style you select. I think it would quickly become a mess of resizing panels and constantly moving controls

OptimusG4 · Mar 14, 2004, 10:08 PM

Great update as usual

Thinine · Mar 15, 2004, 02:26 AM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
You're making sense I don't think that would work well though, you'd have a constantly changing set of controls, even depending on which style you select. I think it would quickly become a mess of resizing panels and constantly moving controls

I agree. But there should be something to indicate a property hasn't been implemented in your style. I get confused when editing other people's styles (extract from site is very useful) and have to look at the source a lot to tell what's implemented and what's not.

P.S. I love your site. Very slick.

Gee4orce · Mar 15, 2004, 04:08 AM

His site used to be even slicker - I loved the semi-transparent titlebar it used to have. Show off !

Suggestion - most of the work I do is php based, and my pages are made up of template components. This means that I have to create a special static HTML page to use as the preview page in CSS edit. It would be very handy if I could select a http:// URL as a preview page, even if it was limited to 127.0.0.1

Loving the update though - that reload button was much needed ! I noticed that it used to get confused switching between visual and editor modes sometimes - inserting } in the wrong place. Hope this has been fixed.

phillryu · Mar 15, 2004, 07:21 AM

Guys, I downloaded the update and now my Pablo/NOP serial won't work! What should I do?

Just kidding.

I really should learn CSS, and this app makes me want to.

Amorya · Mar 15, 2004, 10:33 AM

Originally posted by Thinine:
I agree. But there should be something to indicate a property hasn't been implemented in your style. I get confused when editing other people's styles (extract from site is very useful) and have to look at the source a lot to tell what's implemented and what's not.

P.S. I love your site. Very slick.

OK, mockup time. Just something fairly simple to try and get my point across.

The main reason I suggested this, btw, is so that when flicking through a stylesheet I can see at a glance what each style does, without having to go through many tabs. I think it'd work.

Amorya

sushiism · Mar 15, 2004, 11:06 AM

Personally I would find that a hassle, if you just want a list of items it actually uses then use code view it pretty much does that

Amorya · Mar 15, 2004, 11:28 AM

Originally posted by sushiism:
Personally I would find that a hassle, if you just want a list of items it actually uses then use code view it pretty much does that

I don't see why it'd be a hassle - you can use the palette exactly as the program functions now. It's not removing any functionality...

Amorya

OptimusG4 · Mar 15, 2004, 11:55 AM

Well hey, you never know, it could be something for a future release, like for 2.0.

philzilla · Mar 15, 2004, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by phillryu:
Guys, I downloaded the update and now my Pablo/NOP serial won't work! What should I do?

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

sushiism · Mar 15, 2004, 09:07 PM

Originally posted by Amorya:
I don't see why it'd be a hassle - you can use the palette exactly as the program functions now. It's not removing any functionality...

Amorya

Just all that adding and deleting business, its not like CSS has a totally endless number of options, it hasnt actually got that many really so they can and have been well organised. Also your suggestion doesnt relaly add anything because if you look in the code view it basically shows the same info that idea shows without the complicated +/- clutter.

Synotic · Mar 16, 2004, 09:07 AM

Perhaps MacRabbit could license OmniGroup's Blue Dot™ feature

Jan Van Boghout · Mar 16, 2004, 10:59 AM

Originally posted by Synotic:
Perhaps MacRabbit could license OmniGroup's Blue Dot™ feature

Good idea

As for the palettes, I'm not a fan of the switching controls. However, I am working on a new system for CSSEdit 2 which should solve some problems

Gee4orce · Mar 17, 2004, 04:10 AM

WHy not just change the instant preview text, so that insted of saying 'This is an instant preview' it shows the actual CSS code, styled in the correct style.

sushiism · Mar 17, 2004, 08:49 PM

make it integrate with transmit like bbedit and subethaedit do

Nebagakid · Mar 18, 2004, 12:04 AM

I lurve SubEthaEdit...

make the two work together, and you will get a secret bag.. containing secrets.