Macaw: Could this be the front end web design tool we’ve all been waiting for?

If you’re a web designer or developer and you haven’t been living under a rock this week (or on tight deadlines and trying to stay off twitter).. then you’ve probably already seen the screencast walkthrough of Macaw.  Quick Links: Macaw website Sneek Peek  @attasi on twitter @gesusc on twitter It’s generated a fair bit of interest from people in my twitter stream, however the under discussed, yet arguably the most impressive feature of the entire video really comes at the last second – the code. This is the first time i’ve seen a WYSIWYG style editor that is trying to deal with modern issues, like responsive design, that produces decent markup.   I’m sure that in practice there is a workflow that would need to be learned in order to get Macaw to actually generate clean semantic markup – however this is a massive leap in the right direction. One might even argue that this is what Muse should have been. The other interesting tidbit is that @attasi alludes to the fact that the app is built on top of HTML/CSS technology, wrapped (assumedly in a Webview) – for a purely HTML application, the interface looks pretty...

Edgy Theme – Sublime Text 2

What is it? So, I’ve actually been using this for aaages. But the other day, someone looked at my laptop and noticed my editor and asked what it was. I said, oh it’s Sublime – to which i received a “no it’s not.”.  Boring conversation about how i’d skinned it to look like Brackets.io ensued… The end result is, i’ve made it into a github repo – so see if other people are interested in changing how sublime looks. Basically my problem was always the same with Sublime as it was with Eclipse – it’s tabs are all big and curvy and i don’t like them. Get the theme:  Github repo: https://github.com/soyrex/sublime-theme-edgy  ...