instacss
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css reference
SHOW HN2011
90points
45comments
#131of 1,097 in 2011
Top 12%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 8 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast search-as-you-type
From 3 comments
cool, super useful. +++ superfast, the search-as-you-type is especially useful (not having to wait for something you just wanna "quickly lookup if you got it right in your head"…
kittxkat on HNThis is fast. period. But when I searched for 'width' (without quotes) it showed all results (*width) but not for 'width' (exact). Same with 'background' css property. Otherwise…
Rumnha on HNdefinitively useful, but some feedback: + Need a way to do an explicit search. There are a lot of shorthand properties and searching for "border" requires me to scroll way down…
hackernews on HN
Clean UI
From 2 comments
Very nice. Way to use Bootstrap!
grantjgordon on HNWhat's the license for your code? You should put one in before you accept patches. ;-) And the UI is totally awesome.
joliss on HN
Objections
Results sorted randomly and poorly ranked
From 3 comments
How are you sorting these? I did a search for "border" just to try it out. It returned 18 entries with pretty much every variation of border-*, but border itself was the 16th…
epenn on HNRight now it just sorts randomly, which I admit is pretty bad. The search itself is very basic--it just takes your query and regex matches it on property names in the db.
rgarcia on HNThis looks really useful, thanks! One suggestion: if you put "color" in the search box, you currently get "border-bottom-color", "column-rule-color", "border-top-color", and…
julian37 on HN
W3schools is a poor source
From 3 comments
W3schools isn't the greatest source. I agree, MozDev would be a better target for your scraping. Also, many examples appear twice. (Try text-shadow, border-spacing)
artursapek on HNw3schools? I'd recommend MozDev.
kenok on HNAny chance you could use the MozDev CSS reference instead? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_Reference
2arrs2ells on HN
Search only matches property names, not values
From 2 comments
Placebo search button? Based on effect it doesn't seem to do anything, and visually it looks like it "sticks" and doesn't ever get "pressed" when you click on it. also, it can't…
Trezoid on HNThanks for the feedback--I only search on property names (not descriptions or possible values), so that's why gradient doesn't work. It's a two-line change to add matching on…
rgarcia on HN
Requests
Use MozDev CSS reference as source
From 3 comments
Any chance you could use the MozDev CSS reference instead? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_Reference
2arrs2ells on HNYeah. If you can speed up the MozDev reference, you've got something. Also, needs an index for those times when I can't remember what I'm looking for.
drivingmenuts on HNjust switched to MozDev, try it out!
rgarcia on HN
Exact match search option
From 3 comments
definitively useful, but some feedback: + Need a way to do an explicit search. There are a lot of shorthand properties and searching for "border" requires me to scroll way down…
hackernews on HNA checkbox you can click to do a non-regexp exact match search would be handy.
sheppy on HNThis is fast. period. But when I searched for 'width' (without quotes) it showed all results (*width) but not for 'width' (exact). Same with 'background' css property. Otherwise…
Rumnha on HN
Permalinks or hash URLs for searches
From 2 comments
Please consider using the HTML5 history API to change the page location to a URL that will work as a permalink to the search results.
JoshTriplett on HNneeds support for hashtags: http://instacss.com/#background
noformnocontent on HN
Add a license to the code
From 1 comment
What's the license for your code? You should put one in before you accept patches. ;-) And the UI is totally awesome.
joliss on HN
Support more docs such as Python
From 2 comments
This is great, congrats! I would love to have access to Python docs this way (builtins, the standard library, etc.). And Django's methods & template tags too...
gregsadetsky on HN[proposal] add some layer of abstractions so different insta-docs (i.e. insta- html5, js, node, some-api) could be easily build on top of that engine
noformnocontent on HN
Alternatives named
MozDev CSS reference
From 2 comments
Any chance you could use the MozDev CSS reference instead? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_Reference
2arrs2ells on HNW3schools isn't the greatest source. I agree, MozDev would be a better target for your scraping. Also, many examples appear twice. (Try text-shadow, border-spacing)
artursapek on HN
w3schools CSS reference
From 1 comment
W3schools isn't the greatest source. I agree, MozDev would be a better target for your scraping. Also, many examples appear twice. (Try text-shadow, border-spacing)
artursapek on HN