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116 points by mhb on Oct 22, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


I read through this a few times to see what it does. It helps find inconsistencies in your webpage design. It does that by reporting the frequency of properties and the frequency of property values in your CSS. You then evaluate that report for potential problems. For instance, shades of blue that are meant to be the same but slightly off. Or font-sizes that are 14px somewhere and 16px somewhere else.


Sounds like the problem CSS Custom Properties and/or Sass are supposed to fix, and often do.


I'd love some horizontal featurette sections on this site that zoomed in on the UI of what this does -- it was very hard to approach with the site as-is.


Would be cool if you could just put in a URL and see it work without doing a chrome extension


Hm. Where exactly does it report the found issues? I used it on my web app and I see a lot of selectors&properties but nothing else.


Just a heads up: this is a tool for complex CSS code-bases. If you keep your CSS minimal and terse you don't really need this.


This is pretty much a non-argument, you could just as well say you don't really need a debugger if you keep your programs minimal. Certain problems have inherent complexity and no abstraction can remove that intrinsic property. You can run a 20-line CSS file for your personal blog where every page looks the same, but you will need more for complex applications with a number of different views, layouts, etc.


This is neat.

For Properties, can you add a high/low sort for parent and children? That would be useful.




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