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CSSEdit 2.0 Released

macrabbit.com — CSSEdit 2 is a major upgrade to the simple and powerful Mac OS X shareware CSS editor. The biggest feature is stylesheet overrides, which allow you to tinker with any site's CSS without having to save, upload and refresh. Also featured is X-ray, which lets you easily see how any layout is built. Lots of other new goodies - check it out!

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  • fcuk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This is an affordable and all around excellent CSS-editor for OS X. I have been using it for years, and the second version contains a lot of useful additions.
    • kypen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9What can this do that the web developer toolbar for Firefox can't? I'm not being sarcastic, this is a genuine question, as I've been editing inline CSS for sometime with it and don't own an Apple...
    • donnie_dark0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@kypen

      This is an app that you'd have to use to appreciate what you can get out of it. I thought the same thing until I got accustomed to using it, and using CSSEdit coupled w/ the live preview mode, I can fly through style development w/o having to constantly swap apps and refresh pages.
  • seyDoggy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8CSSEdit 2.0 is an unbelievable kick up from 1.7!!! IT ROCKS!!! I couldn't be a developer without this indispensable tool.
  • Jonnotie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah, he worked on it for 1.5 years
  • realmacsoftware, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This App seriously rocks. Seriously!
    • gargantuan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed, the best App I've ever used.
  • bonkers1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I wish I had a mac to use it :(
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Try ViM
      If you know CSS already, it is ten times easier.
    • l0ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@iamcitizen: Vim is a great editor, but it cannot be used to do live previews or act as a graphical guide to CSS when you're stumped and can't remember if it's font-face or font-family. It also cannot open a website, rip the style and do live previews of the web site with the new style applied without major scripting, I imagine.
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@l0ne:

      No, but Firefox can. What I do for web design, is have ViM open in one workspace, and Firefox open in another. When I want to see a preview, I just refresh the local file in Firefox. That entire process can be done in 2 keystrokes, as opposed to actually having to use your mouse, like with this program.

      As I stated in my previous comment, _if you know CSS already_ ViM is better. You don't need the bloat of a graphical program.
  • Zipp425, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1They should make a web based version of this app
  • shivamib, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3why is it only available for mac?
    • Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's written using mac-only stuff (its a cocoa application)
    • shivamib, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Oh. Well, it's not much use to have a cool app to write css when you have a browser like IE to support... You're either a css hacker by then. Or crazy. Or both.
    • twistedonion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Oh. Well, it's not much use to have a cool app to write css when you have a browser like IE to support..."

      huh? If you write css then you should know how to support IE... it's really not that tricky. I enter one line of code into the top of the stylesheet and have never once had a problem with IE 5.5+

      It's a crap browser but it's hardly unsupportable!

      Oh, and CSSEdit... kicks ass, couldn't work without it... though it makes my second favourite css app "xylescope" pretty much redundant
    • shadownight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"why is it only available for mac?"

      Because web designers who build beautiful websites use a Mac, and developers who develop amazing applications like this use a Mac.
  • fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3All I can say is...
    WOW, this is perfect!
  • entropy1980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Any word on upgrade pricing?
  • nilobject, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Fair warning: Don't expect any support. I've owned CSSEdit for ages and have uncovered a number of bugs, all of them serious (as in "deletes half your CSS code serious") and involving the groups feature as well as switching between code and GUI modes.

    The author never -- not once -- replied to me or fixed the bugs I reported.

    Let's hope 2 is different...
    • tonyarnold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had the exact opposite experience to you. Support has always been fast and professional for me.
    • seyDoggy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My experience has been nothing but amazing with Jan. Great guy, great developer, great product. There have been a few bugs along the way, but 2.0 has addressed so many of those that were present in 1.7.
  • stevenvanwel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, great update! Really love it.
  • theWaterboy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Digg me down, but.... CSSedit sucks. Its autocompletion == bad, and the last time I checked you couldn't even print from cssedit. Does it have line numbers in the code view?

    On Mac, if you need an excellent CSS app, Dreamweaver is by far the best. If you know all the styles, then a simple, free text editor will suffice. Why pay for something directed towards ONE aspect of web design, but doesn't do it well?
    • twistedonion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you use Dreamweaver on a mac and think it's great... crazy dude, you are just too crazy.
    • NikF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Instead of asking questions, why not *actually* go and try it out? You might just suprise yourself. I swear by CSSEdit, and v2 just confirms that it rocks. X-ray is so handy, and the new UI and options make it well worth the update fee.
    • zlwise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dreamweaver is total crap at the moment. The WYSWYG for rendering the CSS is way off, almost unusable
    • nocre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Using Dreamweaver has done nothing but slow me down for the most part. I'm not big on WYSIWYG editors, though. I'd rather just do it by hand. This program sounds fairly interesting since it can change the style in the browser in real time.

      For now, I just use Notepad++ and Firefox extensions..
  • largerego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, I just want to say, that I've been on the beta team for this thing, and it's been the best CSS editor ever since the first seed. Even when the GUI implementation wasn't in place, and only the text editor portion, and preview section were working, it was still the fastest path to "done and good" I had ever used, it still is, it's just better now.

    I know CSS, I know (X)HTML, I can type them both cold, and usually do, but the x-ray feature on the preview screen of CSSEdit 2 is the best frigging CSS design tool there is or has ever been. You can see what your affecting without having to add temporary borders, or background colors.

    Although it is a pain in the ass to bring my MacBook to work everyday, I bring it just to bring CSS Edit along with me because I might need it (want to use it badly) that day. It's worth every penny you could pay for it. In fact, if you are a web developer, it's worth the price of a Mac* just to have the tool in your arsenal. *Anything is worth the price of a mac though.

    As far as support. Jan has always gotten back to me when I needed help with the product even in the beta program; so I don't know what you're talking about nilobject.
    • l0ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3X-Ray is a bit ripped off from Xylescope, although Xylescope doesn't have such a great CSS editor attached :)
  • plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agreed, but I find Xylescope a little complicated sometimes. Now this functionality is inside CSSedit it has gone from very useful, to totally invaluable. Thanks macrabbit :)

    Ps: To the dude saying Dreamweaver is the best coding package. I just hope you had your tongue firmly planted in your cheek when you said that.

    For me the unbeatable combo is Textmate & CSSedit. Pure coding nirvana.
  • Jonnotie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Noticed that when you save your .php/.html file the preview refreshes?
  • badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How is this product for those who have a very basic knowledge of CSS?

    I used to code in straight HTML back in the late 90's. Then I fell into the Dreamweaver trap for years. I moved onto Flash and Action Script. Now I'm falling back in love with CSS/HTML and it's 'simplicity'.
    • yonis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I learned CSS with this app because it's straightforward and easy to use, and still use it to this day because it's a rich, rapid CSS development environment. :-)
    • blocguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I also used this app whilst it was in version 1 to get me started in CSS design. It sped things up considerably because instead of staring at loads of pieces of code, applying them then re-freshing my browser, I could use a GUI that told me what things would do and then show me it in real time. After a while I began to take a peek at the actual code that it was producing and now I know what every part of CSS does as I can relate back to the GUI of this app. It really is an absolutely fantastic app.
  • Chris24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Amazing App!! I WANT IT!!!

    Trial rocks!!
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