Locally shared css

[avidseeker]

Beautiful idea. Thank you for sharing.

My suggestion is to have an option to reference css from a shared path instead of duplicating the same code in all nash notes. By a shared path I mean something like /usr/share/nash/common.css for global css or assets/common.css for relative css.

I understand that the whole idea of nash is to have a self-contained html file, but I think this is worth considering for two reasons:

0. Saves space of repeated code
1. It makes a style update effortless. To change theme, simply change one common.css file.

A workaround I can think of is possibly through a script that goes over every nash note and updates its internals to match the new css.

[keepworking]

That's right. I always think the same thing.

In order to prevent duplication of these css and js codes, we are thinking that some kind of software or tool that manages the hash files locally will be needed.

I'm thinking of ways to make the most of the browser's features, but I think there are limitations. I'm also considering creating a PWA app.

I'm looking for a way to meet a lot of conditions without the nash getting heavy.

I'd like to hear various opinions regarding this.

[terrygonguet]

You could start splitting code and CSS into shared files to optimize for note size, but at this point you're just reinventing standard web apps but worse.

You could add an option to reference a user-supplied CSS file but I think some browsers like Chrome don't like loading files from an HTML page served from the filesystem, so many users would have to host the file somewhere and that sounds sub par.

I think the easiest way would be to add a way to edit CSS and store it in the browser directly so it can be shared by all notes in the same browser instantly and without additional file management. I assume some browsers may even sync such data between devices transparently.

We could even imagine an extension whose job it would be to manage those CSS (and maybe JS) files and sync them but at this point we've just reinvented Stylus and Greasemonkey but worse.

Love the idea and implementation, really cool!