Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

#1

Post by igauravsehrawat » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 5:54 AM UTC

Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good
chrome.google.com

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

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Post by mklopets » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

What's your thinking behind how this works? What makes the 'after' sites more beautiful?

The increased padding on the Chromium site is great, but to me the HN 'after' looks quite a bit uglier than the 'before'.

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

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Post by herbst » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 12:10 PM UTC

mklopets wrote: post #2

What's your thinking behind how this works? What makes the 'after' sites more beautiful? The increased padding on the Chromium site is great, but to me the HN 'after' looks quite a bit uglier than the 'before'.

Also the cpluscplus example. It throws structured data in a completely unreadable format and ads paddings to the navigation where they are surely not needed.

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

#4

Post by igauravsehrawat » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 1:39 PM UTC

I also have open sourced the extension at https://github.com/igauravsehrawat/beautify-me

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

#5

Post by igauravsehrawat » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

mklopets wrote: post #2

What's your thinking behind how this works? What makes the 'after' sites more beautiful? The increased padding on the Chromium site is great, but to me the HN 'after' looks quite a bit uglier than the 'before'.

Thanks for feedback, I shouldn't have used "beautify" but "look good" kind of. Comments section is more readable IMHO http://i.imgur.com/Drb2nQ7.png

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

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Post by danhardman » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 4:09 PM UTC

Shouldn't this be called "Bootstrap Me"? The beautifying is simply just inserting bootstap.css into the current tab. Cool idea, don't think it needs jQuery though and popup.css can be stripped down massively.

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

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Post by igauravsehrawat » Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 4:57 AM UTC

danhardman wrote: post #6

Shouldn't this be called "Bootstrap Me"? The beautifying is simply just inserting bootstap.css into the current tab. Cool idea, don't think it needs jQuery though and popup.css can be stripped down massively.

Yeah, it probably should be "Bootstrap me", but I did modified bootstrap.css to fit into this context. Also you are right with jQuery and popup.css.

Thanks

Cheers

Re: Show HN: My chrome extension to make old webpages look good

#8

Post by wingerlang » Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 1:40 PM UTC

I don't think they became better.