zen-coding

Do you use any tools for rapid html/css development?

I just heard about zen-coding, which basically is just a script that generates markup based on a css-esque selector, ex: div#foo > p*6 generates <div id="foo"> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> Edit: Here's a more advanced example.. And PS - I'm not even going through any API, I'm total...

Emacs, Zen-Coding mode, and Putty.

I use emacs via Putty and since Putty doesn't send certain key combinations to the remote console I generally need to re-bind them to other key combinations. After installing the amazing Zen-Coding mode I had some trouble with the preview it generated; I couldn't get it to insert the output it was previewing. I got around this with the ...

HTML {% %} tags?

I was watching a video coding html, and I saw in the video they used a bit of code that looked like this: <body> {% block %} {% endblock %} </body> Is this some form of commenting in html? I think the coder they were using was Espresso for Mac. I've just never seen it. The video is here: http://vimeo.com/7405114, at about 5 m...

Zen-coding how to acheive alternating item multiplication

I recently attempted the adding zen-coding to my tool box of software development box of magic and have been mostly underwhelmed by it. Whether or not this is because it truly is technically deficient or rather suffers from documentation deficiencies I am not sure. Regardless, I can't seem to use zen to generate this very simple and comm...

How do you get full support of zen coding in NetBeans 6.9?

I'm using NetBeans 6.9 with the Zen Coding plugin. I was wondering if there is a way to get the selector support working in NetBeans. Currently typing this: ul#my-list>li*3>a Does not produce this: <ul id="my-list"> <li><a href=""></a></li> <li><a href=""></a></li> <li><a href=""></a></li> </ul> ...