A Harsh CSS Environment for Testing Widgets

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/06/a-harsh-css-environment-for-testing-widgets.html

by epi0Bauqu • 17 years ago

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jcsalterego• 17 years ago

Neat idea -- and here I thought it was just going to redirect to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ D:

jack7890• 17 years ago

Incredibly useful. We just released a widget, and will definitely be using this to make sure its bullet-proof.

bjclark• 17 years ago

We just launched a widget too and were surprised by how hard it was to stop the cascade. This is pretty useful.

fortunado• 17 years ago

This is probably the fifth "Why didn't I think of that?" thing I've seen on HN today. Really cool stuff... bookmarking it in case I need it one day.

r7000• 17 years ago

The exact thought I had. Having just released a widget this weekend I had thought about how to give it a thorough test. I'll just try it out on some different blog platforms was my sad idea. Then, this today. Thank you very much Gabriel!

Tichy2• 17 years ago

Is the "!important" thing part of a coming arms race? Must admit I have not encountered it before. Can they be combined (!important !important or !veryimportant,...), and in a couple of months all style sheets have to be !supermegamegaimportant?

Hexstream• 17 years ago

This is one of those times I pat myself on the back for reading the specifications directly ;P

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules

Tichy2• 17 years ago

This feature sucks. So once stylehseet authors start using !important everywhere, users will have to use !important everywhere, too. Then in the next incarnation they will introduce a !moreImportant property to overide the !important setting of the user stylesheet.

A Harsh CSS Environment for Testing Widgets

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