Some more feedback on 1.25

[shawnholt]

First some perspective on me:

To be honest, most of my work is in Drupal, so PG has not been ideal for my workflow. I'm a mostly a system builder who has more and more css/theming issues to deal with all the time.

I think this is a fantastic tool for people like me, especially with targeting and adjusting css, ensuring responsive design, and making adjustments that do not require a designer or front-end specialist.

I use webstorm php and very happy to learn about new external integration. Also the R command to see how styles get applied.

I realize you want to develop a more robust solution for CMS support, but I think with some small additions (mapping local resources to remote URL like in webstorm or chrome developer) you can make some powerful and relatively cheap wins.

Upgrade Installation:

• I get a security warning from Windows 8.1 that the publisher is unknown and have to bypass the alert to install.
• The setup seems to work properly, but the Setup.exe did not close (had to kill the process for some reason.)
• Although this was an upgrade, I was required to re-activate.

Use Case:

Working on a Drupal site, in an earlier version I was able to save the html, open in PG and adjust CSS properties. I would then have to apply in my IDE. I can no longer see any of the css rules in PG - unless I attach my local stylesheet.

Ideally, I would like to work on the remote URL and specify the local stylesheets I want to work with. Drupal has many but I generally want to work with a few specific ones.

Any changes I make, I would like saved to local stylesheet copy (I can have webstorm or FTP upload to server to reflect changes.)

Ping me if you would like more concrete examples / screenshot / etc.

[shawnholt]

Update. Well, I figured out part of the problem - Drupal uses @import for css rather than link and wraps it in a /style tag. PG did not like that at all. Showed the stylesheets as "inline" and it was impossible to work with them. I added a snippet to remove that pre-processing here: http://e9p.net/disable-import-tags-stylesheets-while-development-drupal
and now I can see the remote stylesheets and css rules at least. I believe an earlier PG version worked with @import better...

So now I can open a remote URL in drupal and see the stylesheets / css rules correctly. note that Drupal appends a ?[cache string] to the css (e.g. style.css?nfz21). Ideally, if this could be mapped back to a local css file (like chrome developer does) this can be a great tool for Drupal sites!

A few more requests:

1. The CSS sidebar on left has 2 windows (StyleSheets and CSS Rules.) Allow resize/collapse of Stylesheets - I have 20 or so and it takes up most of horizontal sidebar)
2. Ability to see only changes to css (or html) and selectively export or update local file. (could be under Stylesheet Manager page)
3. Under Stylesheet Manager page, include "Revert" or "Reload" option to discard changes,
4. Preserve comments. When I attached a local sylesheet with comments and saved changes, it removed the comments.
5. Allow mapping of images. In Drupal, I have images in a background image with a relative location to the theme (ie. ../images/image.png) but PG no longer finds this when I open via URL.
6. Smart page refresh with undo. I use undo a lot, Refreshing the whole page is a distraction at best. loses place occasionally too.

Hope this is helpful and still the right forum for feedback and suggestions.