David Deraedt

Didn't catch the live stream? Don't want to read super long official announcements?

Here's the short story. We announced:

• CSS Filter lab an experimental showcase for our contributions on CSS filters

• Adobe Edge Animate, the animation tool for the web, is now officially released and temporarly available for free

• Adobe Edge Reflow, a new tool for responsive webdesign. Preview later this year.

Zen Coding is a fairly popular way to boost web developers productivity, so it seemed natural for me to see if could be implemented as a Brackets extension. Unfortunately, in the current state of its development, this proved to be a really difficult, probably impossible task. But this doesn't mean you can't do it by other means, even if that involves ugly hacks. Since Brackets is open source and written in JavaScript, it's incredibly easy to hack.

Needless to say, what I describe here is highly experimental and will probably break in future versions of Brackets (ie post sprint10). Hopefully, there will be better ways to do it by then.

Update: The article is now available online at the Adobe developer center

I'm really, really into Brackets right now. In case you've never heard of this crazy new code editor project, you should take a look at its github repository, download it, and go crazy. It's way too early to use in production though, so be warned.

I wanted to contribute to this open source project as soons as possible, so I spent quite a lot of time studying its source code. And since I guess a lot of people will want to participate too, I thought I could share my thoughts.