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InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

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Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#31
Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#32
post #31

Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

Don't even get a blank page :) Get a "Server not found"

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#33
It would be nice if it sorted by relevance; i.e. a search for background would give you the definition of the background property first instead of the -webkit-background-composite property which is almost certainly less relevant (worse match, less used).

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#34
Nice, but a few UX nitpicks:

* Default to sort by relevence: Put the more relevant matching properties at the top. For example, I type "backg" instead the highest result being the obscure "-webkit-background-composite" ... actually most relevant result "background" which should be the first result instead of the third.

* Default results list to condensed format: Instead of showing the full verbose docs for every matching result instead show a sparse summary of each result with a option to expand it. If there's only one matching result then show the complete doc for it

* Nice example palette for standard colors. How about an example palette for the standard font families?

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

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post #31

Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

> What is wrong with you?

There's got a be a more polite way to phrase that.

Also, while I understand the reasons for disabling JavaScript generally, is this really something to get that upset about?

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#37
post #31

Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

The percentage of users with Javascript disabled[1] is smaller than the percentage of users using Opera[2].

So there is nothing wrong with choosing to not support 2 out of every 100 users; that's simply a time/cost assessment. What's wrong with you?

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...

[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#38
post #31

Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

The percentage of users with Javascript disabled[1] is smaller than the percentage of users using Opera[2]. So there is nothing wrong with choosing to not support 2 out of every 100 users; that's simply a time/cost assessment. What's wrong with you? [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-... [2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Which is all well and good unless users don't have a choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The percentage of users with Javascript disabled[1] is smaller than the percentage of users using Opera[2]. So there is nothing wrong with choosing to not support 2 out of every 100 users; that's simply a time/cost assessment. What's wrong with you? [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-... [2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Which is all well and good unless users don't have a choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers

Except, that's a poor argument: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript

Re: InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

#40
post #31

Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of usability.

Yeah, how the OP dares to shows us a prototype of something that he probably hacked in a couple of hours and doesn't even support the very specific user that has JS disabled by default.
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