[thelist] CSS S/W, Which Do you Like?

Gary Bland Gary at star-chaser.com
Thu Aug 15 17:41:01 CDT 2002


Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> --- Tony Crockford <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>A further question I have on this is why use a CSS sw? Coding
>>>everything by hand, why would I want to use an editor? I've heard
>>>something about warning you if something may not work?? Just
>>
>>curious.
>>
>>>Tom
>>
>>How about having all your options appear when you start a style
>>declaration?  Or running a style sweeper that reorders your messy
>>code
>>to a neat and tidy version?  Or a style checker that will check
>>your
>>style sheet for compatibility with browser support on the fly? or
>>maybe
>>a constant preview of what your style sheet is doing with that last
>>change?
>>
>>All these and much much more come with Topstyle 3.0, which is why I
>>now
>>use it for coding xhtml as well.
>>
>>gets a big vote from me for most useful tool since.....
>>
>>more here:
>>
>>http://www.boldfish.co.uk/item19.htm
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>tony
>
>
> Yep, that all makes sense. Now, I already use HomeSite to code
> with..and am very attached to it. I use HS4.5 at work and 5.0 at
> home. I know I have the "lite" version of TopStyle, but I never
> really played with it.
>

Why bother with homesite? Nick Bradbury, the developer of Homesite is
the developer of TopStyle. TopStyle's html editor has many features
including server mapping.

Gary




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