This tool is totally inadequate for webdesign, and therefore for code generation: it’s just a tool to manipulate pixels.

I don't think so. How are you going to handle responsive designs or hell even fluid designs? Or deciding which HTML tag to use? HTML tags are meant to be semantic.

More and more people are moving away from designing in photoshop to designing straight in the browser.

edit: I see the link in the OP uses bootstrap and is well put together, but it's still far from perfect.

I totally agree with this and gave my own detailed explanation of the difference between semantic and non-semantic HTML here --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284054

Bootstrap not only makes it simple to visualize the construction of a page, but their documentation is really easy to understand (while HTML's documentation can be difficult to go through).

It's great how flexible HTML/CSS is -- it comes pre-built with an existing paradigm (semantic HTML), and tools to create your own (read: <div>s & classes/IDs). Personally, I prefer using the standards already set than creating something new and/or using something different.

They need to respond dynamically to window resizing, have rules about which directions text boxes expand in when they overflow with text, how the page operates when a whole section is missing, etc.

Any tool that appropriately allows for all this complexity to be specified, has already become as complex as CSS itself, thus defeating the purpose.

And in my personal front-end experience, 95% of my time is spent on these harder details. Throwing together the basic HTML/CSS skeleton of a page is trivial, and so fast I don't really need a tool to speed it up, especially when that tool is always bound to get something wrong.

> Any tool that appropriately allows for all this complexity to be specified, has already become as complex as CSS itself, thus defeating the purpose.

This was my immediate issue with CSS Hat. The designers are not trained to set up their photoshop files to be properly evaluated in CSS. They do not know CSS, or how it works. They get their pixels "perfect" (or way off most of the time when doing real math with css), but the fact is to use tools like this they have to get on board 100%. For some designers, this is easier than others.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still interested in trying out the tool. Maybe it is magic...

Edit: also, the unthemed "Error - Login - Paypal" link from your "Free 3-Day Trial" button probably doesn't convert very well...

Tools like this, which can create good mark up, have a lot of potential to speed up the coding process. If these tools can get the developer 80% there then its great.

I feel this is as far as these tools will take us.

P.S I have used (ie paid for) PSD2HMTL and the folks did a magic job. I recommend them to all.

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