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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

#61

I kept trying to tab to format my CSS and accidentally went to the preview. That might be for accessibility, but I'd like to ability to Tab the textarea. Also Syntax highlighting would be great, but I like the simplicity of it. Don't worry about showing any of the existing css.

Thanks! I am working on allowing tabs in the textarea (that's not exactly easy though). Don't know about syntax highlighting.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

#62
post #52

Websites with utf-8 encoding look quite silly.

The website works fine with all pages that either

(a) have only ascii chars (b) have any utf8-encoded unicode characters (c) specify the content encoding in the http headers

I'm trying to find a solution.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

#63
AWESOME! I just launched an app with my friends http://takeastand.com.ng and I was looking for a way to get design suggestions. I would be glad to get some for my landing page.

PS: do not take a stand becuse it will automatically post to your FB profile and I know the HN crowd will not like it.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

#65

Well 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)

Have you considered using this: http://chardet.feedparser.org/ to detect the encoding?

I'm not sure if this helps, but seems like it would.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

#69

Woow, I like it. I could actually use it as a simpler replacement for Stylebot. However, I have a feature request: let me change the css styles _without_ changing the url.

Is coming today, for registered users!

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

#70

I 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)

You should try to leverage Dustin Curtis' American Airlines remake controversy in some way: http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines_redesign....

Andrew Wilkinson's Zappos "Redesign" which almost consisted of just putting gradients and drop shadows all over the page would definitely be easy with this project too!

http://www.metalabdesign.com/zappos/

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