Slightly off topic: You use "enough to be dangerous" with a positive meaning, as in enough to make a real difference in the world, while Alexander Pope quote you use is probably negative: "A little learning is a dangerous thing." as in, someone who knows little can do more harm than good.
Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
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Re: Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
#42Slightly off topic: You use "enough to be dangerous" with a positive meaning, as in enough to make a real difference in the world, while Alexander Pope quote you use is probably negative: "A little learning is a dangerous thing." as in, someone who knows little can do more harm than good.
Haha this is very true. I like to think of it as an easter egg.
Re: Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
#43Not to detract from what is a pretty cool project, and I hope OP had fun making it, but: http://codepen.io is this and quite a bit more. It supports HTML+JS+CSS as well as e.g. Jade, SASS and CoffeeScript- if that's what floats your boat- and some nice social features, like featured pens and saving to Gists. Other commenters have pointed out a myriad of similar such services. I'm surprised Codepen hasn't come up alre…
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#44Its a little thing, but i like how you literally don't need to click on any buttons to save / create a new one / etc. I also like how you can create your own customized path to help you remember the link... just type in a new path and start editing, and you now can share that custom URI.
I think its important to create as little friction to usage as possible, and you've done that.
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#45Its a little thing, but i like how you literally don't need to click on any buttons to save / create a new one / etc. I also like how you can create your own customized path to help you remember the link... just type in a new path and start editing, and you now can share that custom URI. I think its important to create as little friction to usage as possible, and you've done that.
Thanks!! I really appreciate that. I also like the unique URL feature :)
Re: Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
#46Nice work and all, but what's wrong with a local .html file your favorite text editor, and a browser? I've been doing that for years to play around with html, css, and js.
Re: Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
#47I use Livejs for the same effect, but this is much smoother obviously since it can trigger on key press rather than polling the resource constantly from the web page.
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#48Its a little thing, but i like how you literally don't need to click on any buttons to save / create a new one / etc. I also like how you can create your own customized path to help you remember the link... just type in a new path and start editing, and you now can share that custom URI. I think its important to create as little friction to usage as possible, and you've done that.
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#49Nice work and all, but what's wrong with a local .html file your favorite text editor, and a browser? I've been doing that for years to play around with html, css, and js.
I wanted to reduce this:
1. Create a file 2. Open it in your text editor 3. Edit code 4. Switch to browser 5. Open up the file 6. Switch back to editor 7. Edit code 8. Hit save 9. Switch back to browser 10. Hit refresh 11. GOTO 6
to this:
1. Go to http://scratchpad.io 2. Write code
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