Oh wow, crazy to see my project on HN! Thank you soap-3 for submitting it :D I really appreciate all of your suggestions, I'll patch the issues up asap.
It’s really cool, what was some of your inspiration and thoughts behind it?
Concrete.css
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#42Oh wow, crazy to see my project on HN! Thank you soap-3 for submitting it :D I really appreciate all of your suggestions, I'll patch the issues up asap.
Please, please pretty please, can we stop with the automatic switching to dark mode if the system uses a dark theme? Chrome UI elements and webpages serve fundamentally different purposes, and have wildly different readability needs!
At a minimum, please provide a way to switch between mode so that we can have some design granularity back.
Thanks!
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#43Would this be more correctly called a CSS "stylesheet"? Calling it a "CSS framework" really sent me in a loop trying to figure out what "framework" means.
What you said is literally "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet". Stick with "framework".
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#44Would this be more correctly called a CSS "stylesheet"? Calling it a "CSS framework" really sent me in a loop trying to figure out what "framework" means.
What you said is literally "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet". Stick with "framework".
Why? Would you call a DVD disc a spaceship?
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#45Not sure I would make the "disabled" buttons stand out more brightly than a regular button. In fact I would swap the colors of those buttons, or maybe make the disabled button greyed out.
I limited myself to black and white when creating the style-sheet, but maybe I should indeed add some kind of indicator for the "disabled" button, such as hatchings. edit: hatchings make the inner text unreadable, I'll play around with opacity and dotted lines, thank you to the users who proposed them. edit 2: went with dashed lines and published a new version. It even shaves off a couple of bytes off the minimized v…
this could be a rare but very practical usecase for strike-through text
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#46Not sure I would make the "disabled" buttons stand out more brightly than a regular button. In fact I would swap the colors of those buttons, or maybe make the disabled button greyed out.
The buttons also need a hover/focus state, easy win for accessibility there
definitely - could use outline property, transforms/thickened borders or border radius animations if it's Imperative to keep things black and white
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#47Would this be more correctly called a CSS "stylesheet"? Calling it a "CSS framework" really sent me in a loop trying to figure out what "framework" means.
the somewhat lost term "boilerplate" comes to mind
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#48Simple, to the point, love it
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#49Oh wow, crazy to see my project on HN! Thank you soap-3 for submitting it :D I really appreciate all of your suggestions, I'll patch the issues up asap.
It’s really cool, what was some of your inspiration and thoughts behind it?
I had been using similar projects such as skeleton[0] and milligram[1] for small experiments such as repfl[2], and wanted to create something similar that I would find aesthetically pleasing and that would fit in as little space as possible. The current version of concrete.css is less than 1kb minzipped!
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#50Refreshingly simple, almost to the point of an aversion to other minimalist competitors like Milligram.
I like it. As someone else said here, it brings my mind to an alternative web with browsers that had a better default and standardized stylesheet. Oh how I wish for this. Can't just Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari all just adopt this one?
Setting up no-CSS sites would be a more sensible thing and we would have less need of Gemini (https://geminiprotocol.net/).
One can dream... Of course, now sites widely rely on a random set of margin defaults, base sizes etc. brought into their websites, so ripping out and changing those wouldn't be quite that simple.