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Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Does anyone use the Extract feature? I canned my Creative Cloud after Adobe were hacked, but do a lot of Photoshop work and then building templates from PSDs. Is it as useful as they proclaim? If so, I might need to create a new account.

Extract is pretty brand new, so not so many people yet, but I've played with some previous incarnations (it was previously beta'd as a standalone web service).

That said, it's damned handy if you're turning a PSD comp into HTML/CSS. That's the use case it was made for - smoothing the workflow between the PSD-making designer and the HTML-writing coder. If a PSD comp has, say, a button with a gradient and a drop shadow, then Extract gives you CSS to reproduce that design, without your needing to open Photoshop and copy/paste the gradient colors and so forth. Even does a pretty good job of including prefixed CSS when needed.

My experience was, for reasonably well-formed comps it's a godsend. For pathological PSDs it's less useful, but you're still better off with it than without it. But it all depends how often you have to HTMLify PSDs.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Does it support collaborative editing?

Also, is there a live demo to be found somewhere?

Edit: Oh wait, I just found this: "Although Brackets is built in HTML/CSS/JS, it currently runs as a desktop application in a thin native shell, so that it can access your local files."

Still, a demo would be nice. I suppose the "access local files" part is not strictly necessary.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#23

It made itself the default editor for html, css, js, and php files...without asking me. After using it for a bit, I can't find a reason to drop Sublime in favor of it.

Not only does it assign itself as the default application for a number of common file types, it does so every time you start the application. Which is why I uninstalled it months ago, though if this has been fixed I may give it another shot.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using it for a while and I really like it. I prefer it to Atom or Sublime or Idea (for small projects). It's nice, it is a fair bit quicker then Atom (which just seem really sluggish on my system).

When I had first installed Atom a few months back, I had performance issues as well, but it does not seem to be the case anymore with all the work they put in the editor's performance last summer.

In my experience atom is really slow at regex find/replace + reindexing projects with lots of files each time you open them. It's going to be nice one day though.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Started using Brackets a couple months ago as I'm on a contract that requires me to work on a client's hardware rather than my own. Killer feature for me has been the inline CSS editing from html. Particularly as I'm stuck using a single monitor atm, this is nice as it lets me keep my css generally hidden instead of concurrently displayed as I often do in other editors.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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I've been watching Brackets for a while now, and I'm pleased with how it's turned out, across all platforms; the in-line CSS editor and color picker really stuck out to me. I'm impressed by the overall fluidity of the program as well.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it at my job to build prototypes. In general, I'm super-pleased with it, there are only two things that stop it from being awesome: 1. The LiveReload feature stops if you open Chrome DevTools, which I often use to debug. Unfortunately, Brackets' own tools aren't enough to match Chrome DevTools, so I have to work with the LiveReload feature turned off, which is a bummer. I really really hope they fix t…

Typically I use a simple Node web server and no demon and it gets the job done pretty well

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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post #22

Does it support collaborative editing? Also, is there a live demo to be found somewhere? Edit: Oh wait, I just found this: "Although Brackets is built in HTML/CSS/JS, it currently runs as a desktop application in a thin native shell, so that it can access your local files." Still, a demo would be nice. I suppose the "access local files" part is not strictly necessary.

If you want a demo, any site running CodeMirror is a good start as that's the basis for the editor.

Otherwise, why not just download it and give it a try?

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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post #23

It made itself the default editor for html, css, js, and php files...without asking me. After using it for a bit, I can't find a reason to drop Sublime in favor of it.

Not only does it assign itself as the default application for a number of common file types, it does so every time you start the application . Which is why I uninstalled it months ago, though if this has been fixed I may give it another shot.

Odd, I've never noticed this behavior before. I just installed the new version and it didn't take over any file types for me. I'm currently using it on Windows, maybe it's a Mac thing?
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