Webpage coding has become a LOT more complicated since the “early” days of the mid to late 1990s. Time was a person could VIEW SOURCE and quickly get a good idea at what underlying code the designer used to make a particular effect. With the advent of cascading style sheets and other web standards, web designers can still “peek under the covers” so to speak, but things there have gotten a lot more complicated.
Xyle Scope is a $15 shareware app for Macintosh that promises to make this code snooping (and learning) process a lot easier. From the developer’s website:
Using Xylescope is like surfing with an x-ray vision. You will immediately see beneath the surface of the web pages you are visiting. Experiment by changing CSS values in author style sheets – no matter if they are on the internet or on your own computer. Export interesting source code with ease and apply new and consistent formatting to your own CSS files.
For $15 I don’t think I can go wrong with this. I’m going to give it a try in January. If anyone knows of a similar / comparable program for Windows or UNIX please leave a comment here and let me know! 🙂
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