CSSEdit 2.5 Rocks
April 24th, 2007 | Published in Uncategorized
In among all the hype for the new kid on the block. One of my favorite apps for a task I am notoriously poor at CSSEdit Has just updated to 2.5 and my is it lovely. This is a great implementation of good thinking. Check out the April 1 Blog post for some GREAT NEWS 
Improvements include:
- Tabs. Yes, this one may not come as a surprise anymore. However, I am sure you will be quite surprised once you try them out. Pictures simply don’t do them justice.
- X-ray Inspector. This must absolutely be the most popular feature request of all time. Lo and behold, here it is: the X-ray inspector shows you what styles apply to the selected element in X-ray
- Selector Builder. Selector what? This is a brand new innovation that should make life much, much easier for anyone starting out with CSS (or teaching it). Define your selectors in plain English, and it generates the necessary code for you.
- Various improvements all over the application: a navigation bar in the Preview, a font picker, selector CodeSense, a text shadow editor, brand new shiny wonderful HUD inspectors, etc. Major changes everywhere!
Some reviews below the fold…
I must say that the tabs might be the best I’ve ever seen: they look perfect, and they support drag-and-drop both for rearranging within a window and for dragging tabs between windows and into new windows of their own. The animation for reordering and moving tabs is splendid.
I was never able to convince anyone to write about the update to another totally awesome web dev app, CSSEdit. The MacRabbit gang has been hard at work at the CSS editing app, and has brought some nice functionality improvements to the software for version 2.5.
MacRabbit has released CSSEdit 2.5, a significant update to their fantastic CSS editing and manipulating application. As if CSSEdit 2.0 didn’t bring enough cool features, v2.5 is almost like sneaking a peek at your v3.0 birthday presents that are stashed away in your parent’s closet the day before your party. There is a list of what’s new on the MacRabbit’s blog.
Why not use a do-it-all tool such as Dreamweaver, you may ask? Simple: CSSEdit offers unrivaled real-time styling capabilities and a streamlined, focused interface designed to deal with Style Sheets efficiently. CSSEdit 2.5 continues to set the standard for CSS editing on the Mac by wrapping powerful functionality into an intuitive, delicious user experience.
It’s easy to understand the theoretical elegance of CSS for building modern Web sites, but when you’re faced either with a blank page or a jumbled-up mess of someone else’s styles, CSS can seem overwhelming. CSSEdit 2.0 went a long way toward making CSS less forbidding, and the just-released CSSEdit 2.5 goes even further.
