Hi,
One of the things that I have found missing is the abbility to highlight in the preview window.
What I mean is a way to have a box appear around <div> tags etc. Kinda like in Firefox web developer plugin.
It would be great for trouble shooting CSS. Have a button to highlight tables, cells divs etc. Or click on it and have a box displayed around that block.
Even better have the code highlighted in a split preview window.
Thanks
Highlight in preview
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syrupcore
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why not just use firefox? Chris is doing great work, karlis is doing great work, why have them duplicating each other?
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Split screen code highlighting and auto-tracking
scandog wrote "Even better have the code highlighted in a split preview window."
Building on that thought...
For debugging HTML code it would be helpful if one could select text or graphics on the split screen preview and have the code for the selected text or graphics automatically displayed in the code editor, or vice versa.
I suggest some sort of toggle switch for "Auto-track HTML code with split screen view" (I'm sure you'll come up with a better title).
I'm not suggesting that Webuilder turn into a WYSIWYG editor, just that it make it easier to find and fix problems that turn up during a visual inspection.
Building on that thought...
For debugging HTML code it would be helpful if one could select text or graphics on the split screen preview and have the code for the selected text or graphics automatically displayed in the code editor, or vice versa.
I suggest some sort of toggle switch for "Auto-track HTML code with split screen view" (I'm sure you'll come up with a better title).
I'm not suggesting that Webuilder turn into a WYSIWYG editor, just that it make it easier to find and fix problems that turn up during a visual inspection.
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The preview/code synch has been already requested a couple of times, but we are having hard times implementing it as the IE ActiveX object does not have the interfaces needed to perform this, or it could be that we simply have not yet figured out how to use it.
T guess WYSIWYG component can do this, but again, I would prefer to keep WYSIWYG off this product.
T guess WYSIWYG component can do this, but again, I would prefer to keep WYSIWYG off this product.
Agree on your assessment of WYSIWYG. I think WYSIWYG would take a fine, fast editor and turn it into a performance dog, with bloated, bug-ridden code. At least that happened to some of the other HTML editors I've used in the past. But please keep working on the possibility of window synchronization. Perhaps there's a third-party library of routines out there that's already dealt with the problem, waiting to be discovered.
Freeware AlleyCode seems to have done it
See http://www.alleycode.com/Karlis wrote:The preview/code synch has been already requested a couple of times, but we are having hard times implementing it as the IE ActiveX object does not have the interfaces needed to perform this, or it could be that we simply have not yet figured out how to use it.
T guess WYSIWYG component can do this, but again, I would prefer to keep WYSIWYG off this product.