So I’m finalising all the issues for Bill Split and the interface to properly launch the beta and it occurred to me that there are limited web tools to actually make the web. There are a few on the horizon which do look promising but they are just pieces of the puzzle, well I’ve thought of a piece that either hasn’t been done, hasn’t been done well or I haven’t heard about it. What I am referring to is a web-based stylesheet editor. This may not be as crazy as it sounds, there have been many times I’ve wanted a tool that made it easy to see and edit a stylesheet in all the web browsers that I work with instead of building for one browser and second-guessing the others till comes testing. So I’ve started with the basics for the moment which loads from a page via a bookmarklet and allows you to choose which stylesheet from the page you wish to edit. Of course I also want to allow you to create a new stylesheet which will load into the page and then allow you to save the changes but that is still far off. You may think it’s not much but I’ve had to deal with many browser security issues (particularly with cross-site restrictions) and am proud of the approach I’ve taken. Hopefully this isn’t an issue which will get resolved later on but we’re taking baby steps for now.

On another topic, started a new job which has flung me back into Ruby on Rails 1.2.3 and all I can say is I can’t wait to get back to reality :)