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fluid for web development

i have been using fluid, the mac osx application for wrapping sites as their own webkit applications for a while, but only for beasts like gmail and google reader. then i realized, fluid makes a great sidekick for my new emacs driven development environment:

* it saves the previous session’s tabs, so you can preserve and separate your development from daily browsing.
* you can give it a global hotkey to pull it up quickly.
* you get to use webkit’s ever-improving, top-notch webkit inspector.

setting it up is super easy. for example, if you’re working in rails, create a new fluid app at the address 0.0.0.0:3000, call it whatever you want, give it a fancy icon and you’re ready to apple+tab between the guts and face of your project.

compiling and sharing code, ideas, and tools for making better websites and applications.

by justin talbott {email me}

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