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		pbhjpbhj on July 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool... In the video how did he manage to leave that M icon at 79px and not change it to 80!!? Something I did note was that the pre-used class names weren't auto-suggested; eg on the footer buttons. Sure that'll get fixed. Also perhaps value snapping to avoid values like "29.608938547486037%"? Everything else looked pretty slick though. Didn't see the GA code being added in the video. Also it seems like Typekit was integrated to get some of the typographical flexibility. Generally though I really liked it; seems very promising.

jwarren on July 25, 2013 [–]

I'm sure there's a name for it, but I fight quite hard to not necessarily round values to pleasing numbers. Sometimes that's just the right value.

pbhjpbhj on July 25, 2013 | [–]

The precision being used is far too high. Optional snapping to common values is probably a good idea too (eg 80px is a common button/logo/icon size).

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