Thread:Pecoes/@comment-4674838-20121105085352/@comment-4674838-20121105221531

There is a lot I could say to this (I'll try to come back to your other points), but maybe I should start off explaining how my workflow differs from yours.

I do all my testing live online. I don't like saving local copies of webpages to my computer, so your Komodo / Dreamweaver set up likely wouldn't help me. I have Notepad++, and my web browser w/ developer tools, that's it. Copy/pasting is great, CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V. Lightweight. Portable. "Noob" (you don't have to install or use complex software)

Here's the central question behind PortableCSSPad: "How the hell do you copy/paste from text editor into the developer tools of your web browser and make the CSS apply to a live webpage?"

Chrome doesn't support it at all.

Firebug technically does, but you have to switch to "Live Edit" mode in the CSS tab and then copy/paste your stylesheet in. Try doing that across 10 different web pages as fast as you can. I could have walked to Starbucks and back in the time it took for you to do that.

PortableCSSPad makes my workflow very simple. 2.5 - Other tasks involved might be adding !important to test specificity, using Developer Tools to turn on/off individual CSS properties, or running CSS through a validator to check for syntax errors. But to be honest, there is not a single thing I use Firebug for that makes it "indispensable". That is, there is not a single task I regularly use Firebug for that Chrome *cannot* do.
 * 1) Open developer tools to view the HTML structure of the webpage
 * 2) Open Notepad++ and write CSS while looking at the HTML
 * 3) Copy/paste CSS into PortableCSSPad to see what the page would look like with that stylesheet
 * 4) Repeat 2-3 as many times as needed until the stylesheet is complete.
 * 5) Save the file to my computer. If it needs to be minified (to inline in JavaScript), hurray, PortableCSSPad can do that for me, so no need to bring out the YUI compressor