Description
LiveStyle — the first bi-directional real-time edit tool for CSS, LESS and SCSS.
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"Text Editor" Keyword
"Css Editor" Keyword
Review Summary
Users appreciate Emmet LiveStyle's concept and the potential time-saving benefits for CSS editing, especially for quick changes and beginners. However, multiple reviews report frequent stability issues including crashes, inconsistent reflection of changes, settings resetting on reload, and compatibility problems with newer Chrome versions. The tool sometimes gets stuck with update messages and requires workarounds. Overall, while the extension idea is praised, its unreliable performance and bugs diminish user experience significantly.
Pros
- Saves significant time in manually updating CSS.
- Concept and idea behind the tool are excellent and have great potential.
- Works well for quick CSS edits and is helpful for beginners.
- Supports synchronization between editor and browser to speed up development workflow.
Cons
- Tool often fails to work consistently or crashes frequently.
- Settings reset after page reloads, causing inconvenience.
- Sometimes changes made are not reflected properly in the browser or dev tools.
- Extension can get stuck displaying messages like 'LiveStyle extension was just updated' requiring refresh or other workarounds.
- Compatibility issues with latest versions of Chrome and some OSes, leading to errors and instability.
Permissions
This extension can:
- tabs
- storage
- identity
- webRequest
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
Additional Information
1.0.8
March 14, 2017
0.35 MB
en
Developer Information
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