Streamus turns YouTube into the music player you always wanted

Post by SeanAnderson » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 9:44 PM UTC

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Nope! No library for material design. I wrote all my CSS from scratch and have never done any major UI development before this. It was a huge learning experience for me! Seriously, I used to really suck at UI: http://imgur.com/a/CH2T2 The most challenging aspect of designing a browser extension is that you really get the raw end of both worlds. It's not a mobile device. No thumbs at the bottom of the screen, no swipi…

Hey Sean, Awesome work + learning experience. Thank you very much for sharing. By the way, your v1 screenshot looks like you have some experience in HTML/CSS/JS. I'm literally a big zero when it comes to UI. I know JS/HTML and can hack my way around CSS but most of the time these kind of works are not from scratch.

Well, CSS is pretty crazy and a lot of the rules don't make sense until you have a full grasp of it. You're only going to get that by hacking at it.

https://medium.com/@fat/mediums-css-is-actually-pretty-fucki...

I used this article to really refine my coding practices for CSS. I basically re-wrote all of Streamus' CSS from the ground up using this guideline and then tweeted @fat with questions when I got stuck.

Not sure if that helps!

Post by SeanAnderson » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 9:47 PM UTC

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I'm aware that Opera wasn't running on the Webkit browser before... but they shifted to WebKit several years ago. How many years have to pass before you'd find it acceptable to start assuming new software is for the new stuff? The website's meh. It was quickly bootstrapped, but I'd rather focus on delivering a quality product than quality marketing. There's only so many hours in each day and many of the installs come…

> How many years have to pass before you'd find it acceptable to start assuming new software is for the new stuff? It's not about the time passed, it's entirely about the usability. They didn't shift to webkit. They didn't just change the engine. They threw away literally all they had, fired most of their development staff, took a stock chromium, and started building new stuff on top of that, at a glacial pace. So fa…

Heya, sorry for the delay. I got swamped with messages :(

I suppose your points about Opera are fair. It's just that even the Opera team made it very clear to me that I should only be providing screenshots using the newer version of Opera. I figured that the old version was all but dead, so why mention it?

That said, I'll throw it in on future publications + add it to the website when the user is browsing w/ Opera.

You can import playlists by going opening the left-side panel, clicking 'Create Playlist' and then copy/pasting a YouTube URL into the 2nd input which says 'URL'. However, I've come to learn that this is totally not intuitive from the number of times I've had to answer that in the past few days. I've logged a GitHub issue to rework it and make it more intuitive and obvious. Sorry about that.

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