Honestly, Mozilla could just shove a DreamWeaver clone into Firefox and make a lot of designers and developers happy.
The challenges for developing software that would let someone who doesn't know HTML/CSS produce HTML/CSS seem high. In the "drag and drop interface" did that drag mean that the column should be 60px smaller? 10% smaller? 1.21rem smaller? Should the font get smaller when a username is longer than 15 characters, should the column get bigger, or should it overflow to the next line? Is there custom menu interactivity at different breakpoints, or can I just let Bootstrap do its magic?
That said, Sketch or Figma plus an exporter gets wonderfully close to what the author is talking about. And as a developer, I appreciate being handed imperfect HTML and CSS over being handed a picture of a website. At least with the former, I can copy and paste into the appropriate location, or throw out that which my judgement decides is counterproductive or unnecessary.
So I don't believe that this DesignTools utility needs to be perfect from the get-go, or address most/all of the edge cases that will come up during development. It just needs to decrease the cognitive workload that developers take on during the "PSD >> application/website" process.
The challenges for developing software that would let someone who doesn't know HTML/CSS produce HTML/CSS seem high. In the "drag and drop interface" did that drag mean that the column should be 60px smaller? 10% smaller? 1.21rem smaller? Should the font get smaller when a username is longer than 15 characters, should the column get bigger, or should it overflow to the next line? Is there custom menu interactivity at different breakpoints, or can I just let Bootstrap do its magic?
That said, Sketch or Figma plus an exporter gets wonderfully close to what the author is talking about. And as a developer, I appreciate being handed imperfect HTML and CSS over being handed a picture of a website. At least with the former, I can copy and paste into the appropriate location, or throw out that which my judgement decides is counterproductive or unnecessary.
So I don't believe that this DesignTools utility needs to be perfect from the get-go, or address most/all of the edge cases that will come up during development. It just needs to decrease the cognitive workload that developers take on during the "PSD >> application/website" process.