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My question may be silly but I think it´s not.
I´m using flex with Ruby on Rails backend to develop rich internet apps. Recently flash has been attacked, an example is Steve Job´s thoughts on Flash.
I think flex is a wonderfull tool, but to be honest I really would rather to have a tool as productive as flex but compliant with open standards.
For me, in a perfect world I would code in MXML just like I do now and Flex Builder would build a pure html5 front-end.
My question is, is it likely to happen? It is allowed to dream anything, right... :-)
Is it likely to happen? No.
Is it allowed to dream anything, yes.
MXML is an XML vocabulary designed to generate ActionScript, which is the underlying language of Flash. Since ActionScript is based on ECMAScript, the same standard as JavaScript, it's possible that MXML could be adapted to output JavaScript. But the reason it doesn't is because JavaScript doesn't yet have the same capabilities as ActionScript.
I doubt that MXML or Flex would ever have an output to HTML. To make that work they would need an HTML version of The Flex Framework, which would most likely be written in JavaScript. It seems very unlikely to me.
I believe one of the sneak peaks at the last Adobe Max conference, they did show a Flash Professional animation exported to HTML5.
[Start Speculation]
I assumed the HTML version was making use of the Canvas elements in HTML5, while resources were most likely PNG.
[End Speculation]
But I honestly have no idea how it actually worked.
You can probably find videos on-line of the sneaks. Good luck!
Simple. MXML was introduced to replace HTML. I doubt they would come where you can generate a HTML 5 generated code. Not possible, and i doubt even adobe would come up too.
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I've been using Paint.NET to create mockups for my web application. They're pretty, and it's not hard to save the constituent graphical elements. However, the process of getting my layout into CSS is completely manual and time-consuming.
I'm aware there are better tools out there for this. Should I be looking at DreamWeaver? I'm not looking for any auto-generated web or data access functionality, and I'm happy to code all the behavior myself. I'm mostly looking for a great-looking layout editor that understands both layered imaging and CSS. (Preferably, one that can map a layered image to HTML and generate initial CSS with the right styling.)
Thanks in advance for any and all insight!
Jeff
A text editor, really.
It's time consuming, yes, but so is doing anything right. I have yet to use any program that builds the design of a website with a level of markup quality that I find even remotely acceptable. Where you may give a div a class of userInfo, most layout programs might give that div a class of style12 or something equally unhelpful. This results in unmaintainable markup, which is especially hard to build into a web application.
So learn how to do it by hand, and then do it by hand.
Axuer can be used to take mockups/prototypes and export as HTML/CSS: http://www.axure.com/
I only ever used it for prototyping.
There are no apps that will make it a css3, they apps that exist will give you a lot of image sprites and css2 and a lot of bugs you have to fix manually :/
So suggest coding it manually or hiring someone who does it(Kinda cheap these days even I would do it if I get paid well enough)
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What is the best CSS framework out there? Also is it better to use CSS framework or use custom css ? the site am willing to design is about 50 pages ... and I am confused whether to use css framework or built my own custom css
i'd recommend Blueprint and 960. I've worked with both and they're equally good in the sense they make grid based layouts easier.
Having said that, I try to go custom 99% of the time because you have more control and you don't need to "hack" the framework to suit your needs.
So if you have the time, make your own framework with a good CSS reset to start with, some typography settings and layout element defaults that you think you'll use quite often.
If you are looking for a CSS framework in the same way Jquery is a Javascript Framework (a bundle of libraries to make your work easier) I think you will have to look for CSS-dynamic generated content.
The only one I know (and AFAIK the best one out there), being a Rails Developer is SASS (you can get more info on Railcast. SASS is actually a
I think it could really cut you some time.
I know there is a porting to PHP in progress (phamlp) but don't know its state.
Otherwise, you could install rails and use it to compile SASS obtaining CSS-formatted stylesheets.
https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki
Don't think there really is much of a 'framework' for css, but OOCSS is the best thing you can do for yourself and all future developers on the project.
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This is at the framework level, not dealing directly with CSS, so posting to SO.
I just learned about the existence of CSS frameworks. 960 Grid System seems pretty awesome, then I found Blueprint, which seems to do the same thing and more.
Is there a better word than "framework" to categorize this?
Are there any other products in this category?
In response to one of the comments Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)?, "how many example frameworks do you want? he just listed two of them.", I'd love to have more than two examples, unless those are the only two in the running.
Blueprint,
which is "the original CSS framework"
960 Grid
System, which is a tool to have a
grid underlying your screen.
YUI
2: Grids, similar to 960? The rest of YUI is more similar to JQuery?
YAML: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout, is what it says on the tin. Has the most SO results.
Elements, which also focuses somewhat on your work process.
Tripoli.
A CSS Framework.
Here are a few more for your list
http://elements.projectdesigns.org/
http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/
http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/a-css-framework
Look at Elastic CSS Framework. Its main feature is that you are not enforced to have exactly N columns.
I think the word "framework" is okay to use here because it denotes a collection of useful, reusable components that abstract away the repetitious and error-prone aspects of a project and allow you, the developer, to focus on the task at hand.
Traditionally a framework is an programming API (which these CSS frameworks are not) so you could be pedantic and say that these CSS foundations are not frameworks.
Seems like "framework" in this case is more like a "scaffold" used in construction, and less like an actual programming MVC setup.
There are also:
The Golden Grid
Emastic - CSS Framework
Malo - CSS Framework
Fluid Grid System - http://fluid.newgoldleaf.com/
Main benefit is that it can contain nested containers.
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I'm looking for a tool that can analyze a large site and look for orphaned css.
I work on this project that has gone through a couple of UI updates. Scrapping the whole thing and redoing it all would take forever. What I would like is a tool that reads a css file and then lets you browse the site, keeping track of what definitions were used and how often.
Then I can go through the css file and find code that I did use and determine if it is indeed deprecated and can be deleted.
Thoughts?
Firefox has a great extension called Dust-Me Selectors for flagging up classes/ids that are not used on the current page.
There's also TopStyle, which promises to help you do the following (I've not used it, and can't vouch for it though):
Preview CSS while you write it.
Easily create pleasant color schemes for your site.
Style Checker validates your CSS syntax against multiple browsers.
Use Site Reports to see at-a-glance where CSS styles are used in your site.
Style Upgrade quickly replaces all outdated HTML code with equivalent CSS styling.
Internet Explorer 8 has this feature called Developer Tools which can help you with that. You can read about it from the IEBlog entry. If you don't have IE8 you can download the toolbar from here.
I would suggest CSSEdit. Been using it for years. Has an inbuilt validator and an x-ray inspector.
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Ok,
i've read most relevant questions asked here previously on this but I still don't see a clear "best in class" suggestion for WYSIWYG editors for ASP.net
I've used fckeditor up to now (found it ok but many problems with config/permissions on folder etc.).
I'm looking for something that has a lot of flexibility/config options and can integrate nicely with the sites css.
Also i'd like something that minimises config requirements when moving from server to server etc.
Any good suggestions are much appreciated.
Ed
Almost didn't open the question because I thought it would have been mentioned already, but FCKEditor is a great freely available WYSIWYG editor with a good team behind it.
TinyMCE - besides beeing configurable and extendable, it's quite nice to integrate with asp.net (or any other web framework) since it's just javascript over a textarea
I stopped using the freetextbox control because I don't like the code that comes with it. I found Cute Editor for ASP.NET to be the best solution.
Demo:
http://cutesoft.net/example/general.aspx
we use the Telerik Radeditor, and it performs great. Microsoft also uses it on their MSDN website. It's not free, but worth the investment.
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx
Try Free Text Box Free Text Box as well. A lot less hassle than fckeditor i've found
Not sure what budget you're working with, but it might be worth taking a look at Dreamweaver CS3+. It has support for ASP.NET and its WYSIWYG is quite good.