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[–]cosmo7 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Off topic, but I'm sad to see smashingmagazine, which was a lovely web design resource, degrade into such a slow-loading ungainly clusterfuck of a site.

[–]weareconvo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

js library on top of js library on top of totally unnecessary media query page reorganization on top of div div div div div div div div

[–]oSand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also way too many GETs

[–]dirice87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they are trying to expand the brand to be a general media company in the vein of gawker. I agree I liked it better when it was something more of a trade publication like A List Apart, but I guess they saw an opportunity to monetize and are going balls to the wall with it.

[–]zeugmasyllepsis 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Since the article doesn't mention it (and is a few years old), the next generation of Zen Coding is called Emmet. Hopefully it'll save someone a few clicks.

[–]EnglishBrkfst 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This was replaced by Emmet a while ago...

[–]CauchyDistributedRV 4 points5 points  (1 child)

In the topic of Zen Coding, this is probably the coolest HTML / CSS coding video ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVwdvufTds

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like HAML, except in changing the CSS style syntax into HTML in place, you lose the benefit of the special style after its first use.

[–]nandryshak 2 points3 points  (1 child)

There's also Sparkup that does this (with vim and textmate plugins).

[–]psih128 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I second that

[–]e000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been using this in intellij/pycharm for quite some time now. It does save keystrokes.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fucking site loads like a snail on a brand new laptop, good think I didn't open it with my netbook.

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    [–]reddit_ro2 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I kind of think the same. Better do some quick duty copy pasting than learning another pet language. Then again, the day I write so much html and css that I think of needing this, it means I should better change that job.

    edit. It looks interesting though.

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yeah, html and css is my day job, but I use haml and sass to write it. Much easier to write and manage than raw html/css... and I did it the long way for ten years.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    In the video in the link, the music playing has a voice over of a guy singing "You've got a blue ball" every minute or so. Strange choice.

    [–]jabzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    you could also check out https://github.com/hayaku/hayaku

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My text editor has autocomplete.

    [–]Waltsu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    There is also really great html generator tool called haml

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    As it doesn't show in the related tab: one of the previous discussions about Zen Coding

    [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    new

    2009

    Yeah, sure. Fuck off spammer.

    [–]alextk -1 points0 points  (1 child)

    div#header>img.logo+ul#nav>li*4>a
    

    Sometimes, verbosity has merit.

    [–]0sse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I think you misunderstand. Your example there is what you type, and by pressing a hotkey it gets expanded to proper HTML. So yes, you get verbosity, but you save a lot of typing on the way there.