Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Lame application excuses

I saw a CSS editing app called CSSVista listed on some link blog (it wasn't Jason's), and since I'm always in the market for a new CSS tool I thought I'd give it a whirl. My advice is save yourself the aggravation. Within 20 seconds it lost the CSS display of dbvt.com and threw some lamo error, telling me that I had too many inline style tags or simply not enough system resources. I love these kind of error messages when developers blame the user instead of saying, "Oh, sorry. Our app is lame and we never should have put it out there."


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Posted on 9/18/2007 4:11:58 PM by Dave Burke
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9/18/2007 5:34:47 PM Permalink

Hey Dave,

If it helps at all, apparently VS2008 comes with intellisense for CSS.

I've been trying to look at getting into CS dev for a little while (my skillz be not 1337) and decided to fire up 2008b2 but apparently it must not like the TagPrefix entries being in the web.config (I was half hoping I could look at the source in the new split designer/source view).

I have heard talk of a Firefox tool that will let you alter CSS on the fly and see how it changes the page.  I'll do a bit of a search and get back to you.

(I don't actually use Firefox day to day, I stuck with IE7, so I could be off base here).

Andrew Tobin |

9/18/2007 6:21:52 PM Permalink

Okay, and back...

There's a few CSS tools in the Firefox gallery, but on their recommended page they have Firebug, which will allow you to edit CSS on the fly, as well as HTML, Javascript, etc and see how it turns out.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Hope it helps.

Andrew Tobin |

9/18/2007 6:22:44 PM Permalink

Hi, Andrew!  For changing CSS on the fly, Firebug does a great job.  Actually, between Firebug and the Web Development Plugin for Firefox there's little else you need to do CSS from my experience anyway.  Definitely check them out.  Thanks for the info about VS2008.  Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.

daveburke |

9/18/2007 6:24:21 PM Permalink

Andrew, We must have been commenting at the same time.  Thanks for following-up!

daveburke |


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