GoLive 9 Extension: DeforceCSS
In my first blog post on this site, I posted a review of GoLive 9 and my intentions for moving future development to Dreamweaver because of, primarily:
- The auto-generated CSS rules that GoLive 9 adds automatically
- Adobe’s implication that GoLive was now a tool for “beginners”
If you’re one of the GoLive users who unwittingly “upgraded” from CS2 to 9, a new extension named DeforceCSS has recently been released by Oliver Michalak with some help from Rob Keniger that at least helps to work around my problem #1 above.
After installing the extension, it will run as a maintenance script to strip the CSS styles that GoLive 9 writes by default. From what I can tell, it runs when saving the file or switching view modes, for instance from Layout to Source.
If you are NOT someone who would like to retain control of your source code and you WANT GoLive to help you generate markup, then this extension is not for you - you’re better off with GoLive’s default behavior, but if you’re a developer or experienced coder who would like to continue working in GoLive 9 without worrying about automatically generated styles, then it’s definitely worth a download. At this point, it seems to be a FREE download.
Thanks Oliver (and Rob)!