Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
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Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#2This is awesome! This will save me a lot of time in communicating small CSS changes across a team. Thanks a ton for building this!
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#3I actually got the idea from a comment here on HN a few weeks ago, and had a little time on my hands today and did it.
Here's the obligatory HN link: http://www.csspivot.com/CH7HJ (just a green background)
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#4This is awesome! This will save me a lot of time in communicating small CSS changes across a team. Thanks a ton for building this!
I'm happy it will be useful to you -- I was wondering if it would! Drop me a line if you have any feedback and ideas: chris (at) metachris.org
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#5I have totally hypothetical (but related) question, though: to what extent does a site's CSS need to be changed, for that CSS to be one's own? I'm just not sure to what legal limits people can use your site to save CSS code from other websites that aren't their own? Again, I have no expertise in this particular question, but maybe you want to include a small disclaimer...?
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#6This is awesome! This will save me a lot of time in communicating small CSS changes across a team. Thanks a ton for building this!
I'm happy it will be useful to you -- I was wondering if it would! Drop me a line if you have any feedback and ideas: chris (at) metachris.org
For sure! I'll try using it when I have the chance and let you know what I think.
Lightning Edit: and a friend IMs me with questions about CSS. I'm going in.
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#7Well done! I'd be ears to a writeup on how you did it: tech considerations, Ajax, etc.
Super minor nits:
Missing characters https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nx/csspivot1
External scripts/CSS brought in with "//" falsely prepended with URL https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nk/csspivot2
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#8I have totally hypothetical (but related) question, though: to what extent does a site's CSS need to be changed, for that CSS to be one's own? I'm just not sure to what legal limits people can use your site to save CSS code from other websites that aren't their own? Again, I have no expertise in this particular question, but maybe you want to include a small disclaimer...?
Might be a moot point for this app, since it only _appends_ arbitrary CSS and doesn't modify the existing.
That's a good question, though. I bet the WordPress GPL decision might have some relevance to it.
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#9I'm sure you'll get a little bit of flak for the name, but this is a fantastic idea.
It will make my part-time hobby of sending people completely unsolicited design suggestions even easier :)
Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
#10Well done! I'd be ears to a writeup on how you did it: tech considerations, Ajax, etc. Super minor nits: Missing characters https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nx/csspivot1 External scripts/CSS brought in with "//" falsely prepended with URL https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nk/csspivot2
Thanks for the feedback!
The missing characters are because the of unicode decoding in Python. If the content-encoding if not found in the html headers it will replace all unknown characters. I'm working on improving that.
The // is something I can fix right now.
[edit] the // link bug is fixed, and it also allows https:// links (which i noticed that it didn't work because i pasted in your urls)