On Oct 6, 2004, at 7:01 AM, Nick Hristov wrote:
Let the flamewars begin!
Easy!
- Context sensitive code completion that is included in skedit and
DW (XHTML/CSS are most importnat to me).
In my opinion that is a bad idea. This will bloat the editor. XHTML and CSS are not all that hard to learn, and you can quickly learn by heart the properties. Is this going to save you that much typing?
Yes it is. When your working on a 1000 lines of CSS with as many ids and classes it REALLY helps to have your editor be able to give you those names in context. Yet again I refer to Topstyle as the ultimate example of how to implement this and I would urge the developers to play with that application in-depth. No need to reinvent the wheel in terms of interaction design patterns.
- The issue about CSS.
Again, this would unnecessarily bloat the editor.
Then make it a module that you can load optionally
CSSEdit is a great stand-alone application, it does what it is supposed to do perfectly.
It's not that great. Especially if your coming from the darkside (PC) and have operated in the Homesite/Topstyle environment. Comparitively, CSSEdit is rather immature. I don't mean to knock it. I own it and it is a good, but it doesn't come close to its PC counterpart -- Topstyle -- That is an app that DOES WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO PERFECTLY
Just run it in conjunction with TextMate.
Why? The CSS are text files. Textmate is a text editor. When I'm developing I want my CSS embedded in the head of my doc so I can tweak and preview, tweak and preview, tweak and preview EASILY.