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Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader (catonmat.net)
12 points by ajbatac on Aug 29, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



It's not fair of me to single out this particular site, but why do people insist on presenting source code in tiny little windows with both vertical and horizontal scrollbars?

It makes it really hard to browse the code without copying it and pasting it somewhere else...


Well, you have to fit in both the 800px wide (less than that because of a sidebar that contains ads and other doohickeys) screen to accommodate the lowest common resolution for people who have not upgraded to a monitor made after 2000, and you want most of your content to appear above the fold (less than that with a monstrous header image). Plus, who's looking at the code? The prose is where the actual content is at, right?

The worst part of this is that these kinds of themes make it really hard to change a few things quickly in the CSS (which I use firebug for occasionally) to make it easier to read. I've started skipping things that have layouts that make me work to read 'em. At least all the people who are not techy using low resolutions can read your tech blog post.


cool, i did something similar on appengine for searching youtube videos of movie trailers, but i parse the rss for the first video.


awk is a fantastic utility for processing 'stuff' in unix.

Yeah, I'm just plugging awk. :)

awk '{print "jer"}'




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