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

2 points by igauravsehrawat 10y ago ↗ HN

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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'.

herbst 10y ago ↗

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.

igauravsehrawat 10y ago ↗

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

igauravsehrawat 10y ago ↗

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

danhardman 10y ago ↗

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.

igauravsehrawat 10y ago ↗

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

wingerlang 10y ago ↗

I don't think they became better.