TopStyle is a comprehensive software application that offers you a user-friendly workspace for programming in CSS. It can be handled by any user who wants to have an easier time writing code.
The UI of the app looks professional yet intuitive. Besides the primary workspace, you can use other panels, such as CSS Selectors, a Clip Library with ASP, JS, PHP and SQL elements, an Inspector, together with a File and FTP Explorer.
On the bottom part of the screen, you can preview the design, check the style the messages, "tidy" the code and view reports.
Furthermore, it is possible to open items from FTP or the web, save the workspace, select the first or previous CSS rule, preview the design in an external web browser, export the style to a sheet, check the spelling, manage layout, as well as import and export settings. These are just some of TopStyle's available options.
The application runs on a low-to-moderate amount of CPU and system memory, has a good response time to key strokes and mouse events, and contains a help file. We have not come across any problems during our tests; the app did not hang, crash or display error dialogs. Thanks to its user-friendly environment, programmers should be satisfied with the features provided by TopStyle.
Limitations:
· You can select and use a maximum of 2 style definitions
· A comment is added to every new CSS document
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release:
CSS3:
· TopStyle 5 includes a new style definition for CSS3. This new CSS3 definition is powering many TopStyle features, including the Inspector (Shift+F9), Insight (Ctrl+Space), and Style Checker (F6).
Prefixr:
· CSS3 is great, but not every web browser out there fully supports CSS3 and CSS3 itself has not reached its final release stage. That is why some web browsers require so-called vendor-prefixed properties. The vendor prefixes ensure that there are no clashes with the changing specification and to allow the browser maker to start supporting experimental CSS properties.
· Of course, keeping up with these vendor-prefixed properties (supporting them, remembering them, etc) is hard. In an ideal world, the web developer should have to focus on standards-compliant CSS properties only.
· Prefixr to the rescue. Prefixr will filter your (standards-compliant) CSS3 properties and dynamically update them, adding (vendor-prefixed) properties for cross-browser compatibility.
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