Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

Re:Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for th... by codegeek on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:26PM (#4352396)

Just tried it. Really cool. I have one question though. The option to right click and "Export HTML/CSS" only exports the current selected widget and not the entire grid/layout. That would be awesome if possible :)

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Re:Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for th... by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:28PM (#4352400)

I think that's intentional. The web doesn't need more fixed-size, absolutely-positioned-everything sites.

Easel aims to be a design tool, I think, to help you in coding and designing sites, but won't do all of the former for you.

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Re:Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for th... by mcolyer on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:38PM (#4352471)

Exactly what we are thinking.

We realize that it's a difficult problem to create good markup but that doesn't mean we can't help. So we felt the best tradeoff was to give the CSS properties used so you can spend less time with the eyedropper tool.

There is an option to export the full page but we think it's best for quick prototypes.

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Re:Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for th... by nthitz on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:47PM (#4352525)

File Menu > Generate All HTML/CSS

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