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Polypane is now part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack

1 min read. Posted on February 25, 2020

We are super proud to announce that Polypane is now part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack . Eligible students get free access to Polypane for a year and can sign up starting today by authenticating with GitHub here…

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CSS specificity calculator

1 min read. Posted on February 24, 2020

If an element is targeted by multiple selectors, browser use the specificity of the selector to determine which styling to apply. Each selector has a specificity that is determined by what you use in that selector…

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4 CSS layouts without using media queries

5 min read. Posted on January 22, 2020

Do you always need media queries to make a website responsive? With flexbox and grid you can make responsive layouts without having to define fixed breakpoints with media queries. Adam Argyle recently showed us a tweet…

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Polypane 2.1: Edit all your panes at the same time

7 min read. Posted on January 14, 2020

With Polypane, we want to give you better insights into your site and make the entire developer/designer workflow faster. With Polypane 2.1, we've made some huge improvements for both of those goals. What's new? Quick…

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Responsive Design Glossary

1 min read. Posted on December 2, 2019

With responsive design come a lot of new terms and concepts and there wasn't really a single place that listed them all with explanations in plain English. So we created one. No super long articles that bury the…

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Polypane 2: device emulation, new modes and simulators

3 min read. Posted on November 6, 2019

Polypane 2 is out! In Polypane 2 we're introducing a bunch of often-asked for features, like full device emulation, filtering and a vertical view mode but also some completely new functionality that just might change how…

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Polypane 1.3: Full page mode and screenshot improvements

2 min read. Posted on September 24, 2019

Polypane 1.3 adds a full page mode, screenshot improvements and shortcuts for the quick switcher, as well as laying the groundwork for the upcoming Polypane 2. What's new in this release? Full mode Show a site in the…

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Give your eyes some rest with dark mode in Polypane

1 min read. Posted on August 27, 2019

Whether you like your entire OS to be in dark mode or not, sometimes it's just nice to dim an application and gives your eyes a little rest. That's exactly what dark mode in Polypane, one of our most requested features…

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Polypane 1.2: Dark mode, Full page screenshots, Live reloading and more

4 min read. Posted on August 22, 2019

There is a new version of Polypane available! It brings dark mode, live reloading, full page screenshots and a ton more great features. Read on for the details. To check out the latest version, start your trial . What's…

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Polypane 1.1 release notes

3 min read. Posted on July 8, 2019

Update 1th aug 2019: Polypane 1.1.1 is now available with the following bugfixes: Fix : zoom-to-fit on Windows (it got broken in 1.1, sorry!) Improvement : better breakpoint detection for certain sites Improvement…

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Responsive CSS breakpoints for the top 50 websites 2019

3 min read. Posted on May 27, 2019

With Polypane, it's simple to see a website in all the responsive widths it's designed for. Polypane intelligently parses the CSS and finds all the media query declarations. We looked at the top 50 websites worldwide…

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Why you need a development browser

2 min read. Posted on April 25, 2019

You're probably looking at this site in Google Chrome or Firefox. That's fine, that's exactly what they're for: browsing the web, and being really, really good at browsing the web. They're built for that. They're built…

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