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Jul 18	2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-25 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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philc·Jul 22, 2011

I wrote LiveCSS for this purpose. https://github.com/ooyala/livecss It's far simpler in that it just reloads your CSS continually. We use it all the time at Ooyala to put our favorite text editor and a web browser side-by-side and hack away.

In WebPutty: CSS editing goes "boink"

primigenus·Apr 11, 2011

Some background on this: our prototyping tool allows you to write code in the browser, and the way maney people use it is they open a prototype on one monitor and then have the editor on the other one. So you save, alt-tab, refresh, just like you would if you were writing code offline. After seeing LiveCSS (https://github.com/ooyala/livecss) we figured we could take the idea a step further and get rid of the need to alt-tab and refresh in the first place. It's a simple gimmick, but in combination with our prototyping app, it suddenly (in our eyes) becomes a lot more interesting. Why? Because your client can watch changes happen as you make them. You don't have to sit there on the phone/IM saying "refresh it now. Ok, how about now?" - they just see things change. Especially if they use a browser that supports transitions - it's way cool to

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see your design morph back and forth as you consider various options.

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