Jul 5, 2010
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A tool for CSS as a language of visual effects

John Nack sees what modern-day HTML and CSS can do and notes:

HTML’s new graphical richness means great opportunities to generate efficient, visually expressive content. ”What is missing today,” says Michael Slade, “is the modern day equivalent of Illustrator and PageMaker for CSS, HTML5 and JavaScript.”

Indeed, creating complex layouts with rich effects and intricate typography is very quickly becoming not only possible with HTML and CSS, but easier than the alternatives in many ways. Try mocking up an interesting layout in Photoshop. Now, decide to bump up the overall font size. Good luck! (this is not a knock against Photoshop; the app wasn’t built for this.)

(read article on Neven Mrgan’s tumbl)

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  3. morientibus said: Neven, have you looked into Dashcode? I’ve only recently begun poking around in it, but it appears as though it’s an attempt to build such a tool. While it reminds me of Dreamweaver in an unpleasant/proprietary way, it also reminds me of XCode & IB.
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  5. zachrose said: Ha. Remember Dreamweaver?
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