[rstacruz]

I've always thought about this idea. After dissecting my own process, I think Easel.io's "picture only" approach is good.

It's very common that I iterate by doing very messy things, like say, breaking menus apart into two just to see how it will work. A DOM-based tool will probably have a nightmare with this, and even if it manages to account for this elegantly, I know from experience that having too many iterations that actually mess up the code can only be a bad thing.

I like Easel's approach. I want to paint a "picture," then build it with hand-made CSS. I don't want some tool being smart about my workflow. Easel exports just the right building blocks so I can implement by picture into a webpage the way I want to.