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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides (smashingmagazine.com)
9 points by kyro on May 10, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



#1 - That is what your VCS history is for. #2 - Choose good variable names and you don't need these comments. #3 - Use built-time templating to do variable substitution in your CSS as part of your build process. #4 - Nonsense. #5 - Nonsense / That is what your VCS is for.


Clearly, CSS is crying out for a good IDE. Not the Dreamweaver/WYSIWYG variety, but serious text editing features that are pretty standard to programming IDEs.


Which would you rather have: Gecko/Webkit embedded in an Emacs buffer, or an Emacs/Vim buffer embedded in Firefox? I've seen some stabs at both, but neither really Done Right.


Probably the latter. Having Firebug IN the IDE would be invaluable and (r)evolutionary. A lot of the times I 'develop' by writing CSS in Firebug, then copy-and-paste the result into the actual CSS file.

Hm. That means I want a WYSIWYG, actually. Time to fork Firebug?


Yeah that would be great. I haven't found a CSS editor I really like.




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