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As a web developer, dabbling in (S)CSS comes with the territory. Big fan of tools such as Espresso Editor that allows live (s)css editing. The editor can do a good job on larger projects. However for quick (S)CSS edits on a page/site, a browser extension is a great alternative. There are some easy to use live css editor extensions.

Now on our end we are really loving SCSS - SASS and LESS. Live editor browser extensions for SCSS are rare. There are maninly 2. But one is hard to use as it does not allow it to show the editor in a separate window... Good luck testing responsive view for 320px wide devices.

One tool I have been using a year plus is Amino Editor and it's Chrome extension. First tests show that this extension will not work out of the box in Orion. (I gave the developer of the extension a heads up). But honestly, I have no clue if compatibility for an extension in Orion is something that needs fixing on Orion's end on on the Extensions's end. I would love to be educated on that.

Long story short: My life would be complete if the Amino Editor Extension would run natively in Orion 😉

Some links to the Amino Editor:

Amino Editor Chrome Extension

Amino Editor Website

If there is anything I can assist with in doing testing on this or contacting the Amino Editor developer... Please let me know!

    5 days later
    7 months later

    I was about raise this but glad someone already did.

    What happens with this extension is when you click on the extension icon, it request you to login in a new tab. But looks like the session is not shared across tabs (or with the application), so when you go back to the tab where you want to activate the extension, it still considers that you have logged into amino.

    Even the Magic CSS does not works. Fails to load when clicked on the extension icon to activate.

      7 days later

      @Vlad Tagging you for your thoughts?

      • Vlad replied to this.

        BO This is just one of the 300,000 extensions out there, and one of 1,500 open issues we have on the site. We prioritize based on upvotes and impact to user base. Happy to hear your suggestions.

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          Totally understand that attention to such issues can only be driven by user votes or interest. Although I have a feeling that there is something common or a pattern amongst these extensions that are not working; amino and live css being the two and belonging to the same category. I will ping other such extensions that are not working for me. Just FYI.

          I will let your team take a look whenever they get a chance.

            2 years later

            I know this is an old thread but in case anyone comes across it and has issues with log in on a non supported browser there's some things to know about chrome extensions.

            1. They do not run in the standard browser context. They are completely sandboxed and use browser api's to pass message between approved domains and the extension in order to allow persistence of sessions into the extension envrionment
            2. Not all browsers (or even chrome based browsers) necessarily support the same set of api's or features. For instance Edge operates off of the chromium project but implements it's own set of rules to what they see as the best for security and user experience.

            As extension developers we have very little influence over these choices, so you may be best served to take your grievances directly to the chromium or other browser project developers. If you raise an issue with us and it's something that would require a core change to fix, we'll often open the issues and share it for upvoting. Here's a link to the necessary info for making requests to chromium: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/support/file-a-bug

            We always seek to provide as much support as is reasonable (we're a small project and don't have a ton of resources, but we love our community and will do our best to support you).

            Also, something new, we've recently added a feature request board for Amino. If you stumble across this post, please consider sharing your feature requests by creating an account on https://amino.dev then using SSO to our Canny project at https://aminoeditor.canny.io/

            We're also open to working directly with the Orion team if they're interested in getting stronger support for their ecosystem.

            Cheers!

            Eric @ Team Amino

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