Suggestions for CoffeeCup HTML Editor...

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I would like to see a feature that would open my default browser and take me to the page in question on my server. So lets say I was working in my project sitestyle on my index.html. The page has already been uploaded now, I want to view the page. I would like a button that is "Go To Site Page" or something to that nature. You have my server information, you have my site location, and page location saved in the projects file I created... So you know where the site is.

Reason I am asking is because right now, I have to upload the site, then open my browser and type in the link or use my bookmark if I have one. It just seems a lot easier if I could all of this from within the Editor. Yes, I know it sounds lazy, but would save a lot of time.
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I am playing around with the HTML Calendar program making a new calendar etc. The spell checker is getting very annoying as it's finding so many things wrong with the spelling in a CSS file that I can't use the right click normal menu on at least 50 to 60 percent of a CSS file. Anytime I right click over anything that is marked as misspelled I end up with the Spell Check menu instead of the normal right click menu. This makes us have to rely on keyboard shortcuts which I don't have a good memory for. I truly hope that the ability to turn off the spell check just for CSS files is something you will consider adding.

To view what I mean by how bad it is with spell check on for CSS files, just export a calendar and open the monthstyles.css file and see how much of it is marked by spell check. It's a lot.

I don't want the spell check off for HTML so I end up having to deal with this in CSS. Please consider turning it off for CSS or giving us a check box to do so should we choose to.

This has been added to the Editor. *Done.*
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Jo Ann wrote:
I am playing around with the HTML Calendar program making a new calendar etc. The spell checker is getting very annoying as it's finding so many things wrong with the spelling in a CSS file that I can't use the right click normal menu on at least 50 to 60 percent of a CSS file. Anytime I right click over anything that is marked as misspelled I end up with the Spell Check menu instead of the normal right click menu. This makes us have to rely on keyboard shortcuts which I don't have a good memory for. I truly hope that the ability to turn off the spell check just for CSS files is something you will consider adding.

To view what I mean by how bad it is with spell check on for CSS files, just export a calendar and open the monthstyles.css file and see how much of it is marked by spell check. It's a lot.

I don't want the spell check off for HTML so I end up having to deal with this in CSS. Please consider turning it off for CSS or giving us a check box to do so should we choose to.


I am checking into this right now Jo Ann. It shouldn't do that. This suggestion however should be in the HTML Editor area and not Web Calendar. ;)
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What if the color schemer showed/enabled choosing HSL and HSLA values alongside RGB? In catching up with CSS3, I'm finding that this is a useful approach and think this would be an aid in growing familiar with it.
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Yes, it would be very useful to see RGB (hex and dec) and HSL all together.

Another useful item would be to see not only the HSL but Adobe's HSB/HSV model, which is quite different from the HSL used on the web or formerly used in Macromedia Freehand, for instance.

I'd love a tool that would do an automatic conversion and a reference file showing the color swatches and definitions, and files for color palettes usable in CSS3 and SVG for HTML5, or in draw/paint programs..
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To the team moderating the suggestions thread:

It would be useful and appreciated by users and by your own development team to compile a list of suggestions that make it into features (1) for the upcoming version, and (2) for some future versions after that. Such a list would let everyone know what's coming and what's already been suggested, to avoid duplication of effort.

That, along with a note such as Done or Added to Dev List on the archived post from the users who suggested it, might simplify tracking. A note for which version in which the feature is expected might be useful there.
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This is being done. :D
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I have a suggestion about Snippets and the Code tab...

What I would like to be able to do, is place my Snippets and/or code tab codes onto a tool bar. Thus allowing easy access to most used items. Having to switch to the code and snippets tab and searching for the desired snippet/code take a while and I could have typed it out by the time I have done this. (Which is what I do.)
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Inger Eik wrote:
When clicking on a start tag, let is highlight the corresponding end tag. Or even if you are working somewhere within say <table></table> those tags should be highlighted.


Yes, this is about the only thing that the Coffecup editor lacks. :|

I do like the new "Inspection Mode" :D.

John
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John Griffiths wrote:
Inger Eik wrote:
When clicking on a start tag, let is highlight the corresponding end tag. Or even if you are working somewhere within say <table></table> those tags should be highlighted.


Yes, this is about the only thing that the Coffecup editor lacks. :|

I do like the new "Inspection Mode" :D.

John

Yes, highlighting corresponding end tags would be a huge deal not only in "table" tags but "div" tags even more.

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