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For those fans of Gedit and Clientside plugin it is time for you to update! The plugin now has updated versions of CSSLint, JSLint, and JSBeautify. As you may know Clientside Plugin provides several utilities to Gedit for working with CSS and Javascript, including minifying, formatting, and error checking/lint. Also as a bonus it can [...]

I had a timepicker user ask recently about adding a tooltip to the timepicker’s sliders. Well I thought that may be a nice topic to touch on, as it can be a bit tricky, and potentially a bit of a hack. I opted to show you a quick hack solution instead of a detailed integrated [...]

Clientside Discussion

I keep seeing mention of a few “preprocessors” for javascript and css, including CoffeeScript, Sass, and Less. I personally don’t see the need in these tools, but apparently they are all the rave at the moment. Essentially what these do is allow you to write in a more functional language/script, and compiles it down to [...]

It only feels right to include a lint method for CSS since javascript has had support in the Gedit Clientside Plugin from the beginning. The latest commit over on Github now includes CSSLint through the nodejs hookup. Don’t worry, if you had it working before all you need to do is update your plugin. The [...]

I swapped out a couple dark colors here on the site for something a little lighter. I also made a transition from jQuery to Mootools, which wasn’t much of a move as syntax highlighting and an Impromptu form were the only things I had going on here. It gave me a good opportunity to have [...]