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Lisa
Lisa

Reputation: 187

Saving CSS changes on REMOTE HOST using development tools?

There is a bunch of possibilities to save CSS and HTML changes made using chrome devtools (eg. with Tincr) or using firebug BUT only on local host.

Questions have been asked long ago* about this, but there might be hopefully some updates since.

Is there a way to upload the changes made for instance using chrome devTools to a website hosted on a remote server? (Like filezila does on FTP)

Would it be possible (and safe) to save these changes via a PHP script that would provide FTP and DB login ; a script that would work with one or another development tools?

*: 2008 : Why can't I save CSS changes in Firebug? 2011 : How to save CSS changes of Styles panel of Chrome Developer Tools?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 727

Answers (1)

raidenace
raidenace

Reputation: 12836

Most of these extensions are experimental and do not have a large developer base. What that translates to is that they are buggy and pretty much unreliable. And there is good reason for that - The browser does not know the language/technology/platform that spits out the HTML/CSS that it renders. If you are using a dynamic language to generate the HTML, then saving the edited CSS/HTML using browser tools is pretty much useless, because you will still have to go into the code files/data source and make corresponding edits.

If the browser developers thought that there was real value add, they would have added an option in the dev tools itself without having communities build extensions for that.

The way I use dev tools/firebug is, I make changes, see in real time the impact, have the code files open with me at the same time, and make changes in them as well. All is good.

My two cents.. :)

Upvotes: 1

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