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As a Belgian business, MacRabbit has been significantly impacted by the quirkiness of the USD. Looking purely at Euro revenue, one might think CSSEdit is hardly more useful now than it was at 1.0. For the past years I’ve avoided passing along currency fluctuations to the customer while developing kick-ass products, but we’re at a level where it can’t be called a fluctuation anymore.
Therefore, MacRabbit apps will be priced in Euro instead of US Dollar as of 26 March 2008 (including any future mystery products). Move fast if you want to take advantage of the current pricing!
I’m happy to announce that CSSEdit 2.6 is completely ready to rock with Leopard! Besides sporting a tight Leopard look (but still running great on Tiger of course), this update increases stability, fixes bugs and throws in some handy new features. If you had a niggle with version 2.5, odds are that the release notes will put a smile on your face.
As part of its Design Award packages, Apple generously provides a Macworld Expo booth to the winners. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to San Francisco myself in January. As such, I am currently looking for happy CSSEdit and/or DeskShade users who would like to help run the booth and tell Expo visitors about what makes MacRabbit software rock 
Macworld Expo 2008 takes place January 15-18, and booth volunteers would need to be present from 10AM to 6PM. As a booth staffer you will receive a free exhibitor badge, giving you full access to the expo. If you are interested, please get in touch through info at macrabbit dot com.
Update: unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find enough people to man the booth before the deadline. Thanks a lot to those that offered to help, though!
It’s 3-dimensional, it has 12 edges of equal length and it’s oooooh so sweet… It’s the Apple Design Award for Best Developer Tool, awarded to CSSEdit 2.5!
I’m absolutely thrilled, and I’d like to thank Mike for calling me out of bed and Alex for picking up the cube in my place! As well, thanks to everyone who simply likes CSSEdit!
Woohoo! A new CSSEdit! Some of you may have seen one new feature already (cough Digg cough), but there’s much more. Let’s summarize:
- Tabs. Yes, this one may not come as a surprise anymore. However, I am sure you will be quite surprised once you try them out. Pictures simply don’t do them justice.
- X-ray Inspector. This must absolutely be the most popular feature request of all time. Lo and behold, here it is: the X-ray inspector shows you what styles apply to the selected element in X-ray
- Selector Builder. Selector what? This is a brand new innovation that should make life much, much easier for anyone starting out with CSS (or teaching it). Define your selectors in plain English, and it generates the necessary code for you.
- Various improvements all over the application: a navigation bar in the Preview, a font picker, selector CodeSense, a text shadow editor, brand new shiny wonderful HUD inspectors, etc. Major changes everywhere!
That’s not too shabby — is it? Hop over to the CSSEdit site to grab the new goodies. CSSEdit 2.5 is a free upgrade for all 2.x users. Enjoy!
Do you want to test the next CSSEdit update? Send an e-mail to cssedit dash beta at the domain name of this blog, say why you’re bound to find every bug, and you may get access to Secret Builds with New Stuff! (only registered CSSEdit users)
It’s been pretty quiet here lately, but that has a reason. MacRabbit is announcing a new product! CSSEdit is the ultimate style sheet editor, but I think everyone can agree that it is time for the next step.
Without further ado, introducing TableEdit! This wonderful application finally rids you of the pest that is CSS, and delivers pixel-perfect tabular layouts with a maximum of nested HTML table goodness.
Anyone can see that Web 5.0 is the wave of the future, and CSS has very little potential. As such, CSSEdit 2 is being discontinued immediately — all existing users will receive a free upgrade to TableEdit 1.0. TableEdit is currently in private beta, but it is due to be released in the Fall of 2007.
[ Disclaimer: I don’t plan on making this a rant blog — I promise I am keeping lots of fun stuff in store! ]
As peeved as I am about people ripping off the MacRabbit design, LogoMaid takes it to a whole new level with Dan Cederholm’s (excellent) new SimpleBits logo. Not only did they sell it as their own, but they actually threatened to sue Dan for stealing their logo. Hahaha, the nerve — excuse me while I go take a breath.
Head over to Daring Fireball for more info, and spread the anti-ripoff love!
So, MacRabbit’s top navigation has been featured on Smashing Magazine. Awesome!
However, all 53 of those sites spent days/weeks/months tweaking their design to get the unique feel they have now. That’s why it’s Not Nice to blatantly steal copyrighted works, as is happening over at Peerplay. Feel free to see how the MacRabbit navigation bar ticks (advertisement: try CSSEdit’s Extract command!), but do not steal the design!
Is it possible to use a newer version of WebKit with CSSEdit? Yes, and it’s easy! Here’s what you need to do:
1) Download the latest WebKit from nightly.webkit.org.
2) Install the WebKit application somewhere, in Applications for example.
3) Run the following Terminal command (replace /Path/to with the appropriate locations):
env DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Path/to/WebKit.app/Contents/Resources WEBKIT_UNSET_DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=YES /Path/to/CSSEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/CSSEdit
4) That’s it! You’re now able to design your style sheets with the latest WebKit CSS improvements.
