Xylescope not only helps in understanding and utilizing web standards, it also uses web standards to achieve its magic. Xylescope’s source views are taking advantage of Safari’s rendering engine to achieve their unique formatting.
While Xylescope transparently converts source code into richly structured HTML, the formatting of the source views is completely governed by style sheets that can be modified by the user! Every single detail of the way source code is presented is completely under your control. This might seem mind-boggling at first but you will soon become familiar with the new power it provides.
Review by MacApper
Cultured Code’s Xyle scope retails for $19.95 and you can download a free trial from their site. It is a wonderful tool for anyone learning CSS, or anyone who just wants to see how others do CSS, wishing to improve their own. It is not, however, a CSS editor and should not be compared to one. For actual editing purposes, it is mainly only used to do the finishing touches of Web pages.
