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Zen Coding

Posted by kdawson on from the change-your-life dept.

Download Squad has a quick review, with video, of Zen Coding (Google Code project page here), an extremely well-thought-out accelerator for anyone who codes HTML. Its syntax is CSS-like. Zen Coding has been around for a while — here's its author Sergey Chikuyonok's introduction in Smashing Magazine from last November — and it has now picked up support for more than a dozen editing environments, including Notepad++ and TextMate.

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  1. Zen by mindbrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there a better commentary on the west's general inability to grok zen than our endless bastardization of the word, zen?

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  2. Let's see... by oljanx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I "write HTML" I'm actually writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and SQL queries at the same time. On a good day. What the hell, why not add another syntax?

    1. Re:Let's see... by pavera · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Please keep your SQL and HTML separate. Don't punish those who will come after you.

  3. Not sheer genius by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA shows how Zen lets you type in a terse message and have it expanded into a chunk of html code and describes it as sheer genius. Thats neat but I have nedit macros which do pretty much the same thing. They are time savers for sure.

    But nothing which you couldn't do a thousand ways. With perl, awk or sed.

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  4. Accelerator by neoform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    an extremely well thought-out accelerator for anyone who codes HTML.

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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  5. You don't "code" HTML by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You code in java,C++,javascript, but HTML is a formatting language - you do not code in it because it isn't a coding language. I know it makes fluffy web page designers feel like their playing with the big boys to talk about "coding" in HTML but you might was well talk about "coding" .ini files.