Introducing MicroLighter(daverupert.com)
37 pointsby tobr4 hours ago3 comments
  • piratebroadcast2 hours ago
    I'm not trying to be rude or unappreciative, but it's kinda crazy to me that the website itself doesn't contain the demo of the thing? I see sample code to implement it on my own site, but the site itself doesn't seem to have any highlighting or I highlighted some text and didn't see anything unusual? Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm missing something here? I'd like to see an example of what a thing does before straight up installing the code on my website.
    • tomtheelder2 hours ago
      The site linked to is a blog post about the app. The actual site is linked in there, and if you follow that link there are examples.

      OP probably should have put an example in this post. That said they look like... syntax highlighted code.

    • what2 hours ago
      The code snippets are highlighted, presumably using microlighter?
      • pcthrowaway20 minutes ago
        That's what I assumed, but when I pasted this JS snippet from the blog post into the playground (ctrl+f "playground", selects JS) on the project page (https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/)

            if(document.querySelector('pre>code').length) {
         import('path/to/microlighter/microlighter.min.js');
    }
        The highlighting looks completely different. I assumed the top-level commenter was being mildly obtuse, but it looks like they were (perhaps incidentally) correct
  • 2 hours ago
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  • xigoi4 hours ago
    Really cool! It’s a shame that the CSS Highlight API only allows changing the color and not the font.
    • SoftTalker3 hours ago
      For me, a little highlighting goes a long way. I don't like my code looking like a box of Crayola crayons. Throwing in multiple fonts doesn't sound helpful at all.
      • goodmythical11 minutes ago
        #section in italics because it contains a bug I've not yet fixed
    • crummy2 hours ago
      Or even setting bold would be nice.
      • capitainenemo2 hours ago
        yeah, although text-stroke and text-shadow probably work even better with fixed width code since it avoids changing line lengths.