spcss

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classless css stylesheet

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spcss

A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages

github.com

#classless css#minimal css#plain html#stylesheet#css framework

128points
58comments
#491of 3,028 in 2020
Top 17%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

6 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Design: 3 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Demo looks nice and clean

    From 1 comment
    • Your demo looks nice. This is what I’d expect from browsers’ default stylesheets if these were not a tasteless disaster that nobody can stand.
      wruza on HN
  • Good documentation

    From 1 comment
    • This is just another version of a reset style sheet no? Very, very basic stuff and there are many online. From memory I used to use normalize.css. I think if you want to really…
      abhinav22 on HN
  • Useful preset for quick readable sites

    From 1 comment
    • I can see it being useful as a kind of preset that's not fancy but can help save time if you just want the bare minimum to make the site readable and focus on the content. For…
      alpaca128 on HN

Objections

  • Too trivial to be on the front page

    From 2 comments
    • I'm confused. Why does this get to the front page and why does it have over 200 stars on github? I'm not a webdev at all, but this just looks like 100 lines of trivial CSS to me.…
      bertylicious on HN
    • This is just another version of a reset style sheet no? Very, very basic stuff and there are many online. From memory I used to use normalize.css. I think if you want to really…
      abhinav22 on HN
  • Kills link underlines and visited link colour, hurting affordance

    From 2 comments
    • Some feedback: • Don’t kill link underlines. They’re a very important affordance. If you’re not fond of the æsthetics of a strong underline, one technique I consider reasonable…
      chrismorgan on HN
    • LOTS of competition with "why did we ever stop using nested element selectors?!" projects like these. Baseline is you have to be better than Normalize, and this isn't. Was…
      SippinLean on HN
  • Not a reset stylesheet but effectively normalizes styles

    From 1 comment
    • It is splitting hairs, this is basically very similar to a normalization done. But I’m not going to enter into a debate on this. Reset is definitely a bad word to use here as…
      abhinav22 on HN

Requests

  • Add prefers-color-scheme dark mode support

    From 1 comment
    • Cool. Maybe adding prefers-color-scheme would be useful?
      netol on HN
  • Add focus styles for links

    From 1 comment
    • Some feedback: • Don’t kill link underlines. They’re a very important affordance. If you’re not fond of the æsthetics of a strong underline, one technique I consider reasonable…
      chrismorgan on HN
  • Add a responsive web version

    From 1 comment
    • This is just another version of a reset style sheet no? Very, very basic stuff and there are many online. From memory I used to use normalize.css. I think if you want to really…
      abhinav22 on HN

Questions

  • Why choose this over a markdown to HTML generator

    From 1 comment
    • Can someone explain to me why would one choose this over a markdown -> html generator ?
      lenkite on HN
  • Why are CDNs avoided

    From 1 comment
    • There was something about avoiding CDNs, what was it exactly? (The README mentions the use of it).
      johnisgood on HN

Alternatives named

  • Classless CSS frameworks like Sakura, MVP, Element

    From 3 comments
    • There are more than a few of these classless CSS "frameworks" (couldn't we just call them stylesheets?). https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css These lists all seem to leave…
      unicornporn on HN
    • I like Sakura[1] for this use case -- it's opinionated, but I like its opinions! Doesn't appear to recognize dark mode, though. [1] https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/
      chris_st on HN
    • https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ is also a nice classless css library.
      etherio on HN
  • Normalize.css

    From 2 comments
    • LOTS of competition with "why did we ever stop using nested element selectors?!" projects like these. Baseline is you have to be better than Normalize, and this isn't. Was…
      SippinLean on HN
    • This is just another version of a reset style sheet no? Very, very basic stuff and there are many online. From memory I used to use normalize.css. I think if you want to really…
      abhinav22 on HN

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