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CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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Re: CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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Not nearly as disappointing as the fact that Webkit has not become a standard in all browsers. We should all be working on a single rendering engine. Webkit has won, and should be the standard. People/organizations can continue to experiment on components of that. V8 vs Nitro etc... We'll just have beta/dev forks of Webkit that can eventually be merged back into the core. Browser fragmentation is fine. It's the rende…

CSS prefixes are dumb, why not just drop them?

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack

Re: CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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I wonder how many people still use Photoshop to create mocksups first and then move to HTML/CSS. Ever since CSS3 became popular I create my mockups directly in HTML/CSS3.

Always Photoshop first. Last time (admittedly a while back) I read about someone creating their design directly in HTML/CSS, it was a rubbish design.

Re: CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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This is huge if they can pull it off. I wonder how accurately they can make it happen. Even if they're simply able to position layers exactly the same as in PS, it's already something I would use as being extremely useful. This could virtually allow you to not code in HTML/CSS3 anymore - which is something I really hate to do. So would it output the HTML elements and give you CSS3 code for it? How about and other ele…

Hi sktrdie, we considered this, but we think that the output would become just a mess of absolutely sized and positioned divs - and that's not how websites should be made.

It is a coder's job to bring in the semantic structure and we merely aid to assist her/him - so CSS Hat will 'only' transform layer's fills and styles to CSS3. Hope that's cool :).

Tomas - one of CSS Hat devs

Re: CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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Looks like they are about to release a tool for that too http://csspiffle.com/

Here's their pitch: http://pitch.csspiffle.com/ Looks quite impressive. The idea is really not new, I've been waiting for more than 4 years now for a good HTML5 tool to go beyond Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks/Whatnot. I hope their app lives up to the pitch.

Cool pitchdeck, but the navbar is really distracting. Should just be persistent, instead of constantly drawing my eye back up to it.

Re: CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

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Looks like they are about to release a tool for that too http://csspiffle.com/

Here's their pitch: http://pitch.csspiffle.com/ Looks quite impressive. The idea is really not new, I've been waiting for more than 4 years now for a good HTML5 tool to go beyond Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks/Whatnot. I hope their app lives up to the pitch.

They look like a cool team of developers!! congrats to them! Glad to see some amazing projects and awesome team back in my old continent!
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