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Dedicated Preview Window for Live CSS editing

13 years ago • updated by 13 years ago • 1

As an interface designer, it would be wonderful to have a "CSSEdit" or "Firebug" style live preview window w/ CSS overriddes. This would allow us to code CSS within Sublime while seeing the effects of our edits in a browser / preview window.

Although there are several apps on the Mac which already do this (Espresso, Coda, CSSEdit, etc.) there's virtually nothing on Windows which allows for this particular workflow.

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13 years ago

I'm guessing this probably won't be seen within ST2 for quite some time, as ST2 currently has no in-app browser window support.

However I would think this behavior could be mimicked with an ST2 plugin. Basically, when you run a certain plugin-command, the plugin would open a local HTML file in the system web browser which contains Javascript that handles the "browser side" live-updating of your ST2 buffer. On the ST2 side, the plugin would then write the contents of your current buffer out to a temp file whenever you stop typing (after a brief delay). The browser-side JS would check for modifications to this temp file every second, and whenever a change is detected, update the displayed page using DHTML insertion.

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