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0 pointspaulirish13y ago0 comments

> the Chrome Dev Tools/Firebug don't save your changes back to your source code

Actually the Chrome DevTools can save your changes back to disk! It's not well known, and its fairly new so I don't blame ya.

Here's how it works: (1) make changes to styles as you do (2) you can click through to the Sources pane and live-edit styles there, just like a text editor. (3) Right click and save to disk. choose where to save the file (4) Make some more changes (5) Just hit ctrl-s (or cmd-s) to immediately save back to disk in the same location.

I just made a screencast to show this in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5obNItQiQ

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jmitcheson13y ago

Wow, the paul irish! Hi...

That's totally right and it's a very cool feature, although that will only help you if you are using Chrome. One of the things I wanted was for the product to work on any browser, and without any plugins.

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