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Live.js allows you to instantly see changes as you edit CSS and JS code. This module enables that ability for only CSS code by installing. It's mostly a themer tool, but speeds up any CSS work.
One script closer to designing in the browser.
Say goodbye to Alt-Tab. Live.js makes sure you're always looking at the latest version of the page you're working on, whether you're writing HTML, CSS or Javascript. Live.js was written by Martin Kool as the next step in Handcraft's design in the browser strategy.
Script Location...
This module will detect if you place the live.js script in your sites/all/libraries folder and use that. This test will be cached and requires a cache clear or Environment change to update.
Enable/Disable...
This is not intended for production use! You have a few options...
Use drush to turn on as needed (since it can be a CPU hog.)
Leave enabled on all multisites and let Environment control* whether live.js is included. This requires a small custom module to enable/disable modules.
Add enabling this to your dev environment refresh script.
Wow, that's a big phrase. Let's define those terms:
Linode: Provider of Linux-based VPS's, perfect for running Drupal on. I'm a huge fan.
StackScript: StackScripts are "Custom recipes for your Linode". They are essentially a shell script that take arguments from an HTML form and ran upon the first boot of a Linode instance.
Mercury: Mercury is an open source stack that when combined together, offers blazing fast Drupal. There is a group dedicated to the stack at http://groups.drupal.org/mercury.
Thanks go to Pantheon Systems, for making the "how to" of Mercury publicly available. Pantheon Systems also offers hosted Mercury instances frontended by a wonderful web-interface for a hassle-free high performance Drupal experience.