Ask HN: Looking for feedback on side-project
Short version:
This is what I envisioned as my ideal HTML reference when I was teaching myself web design. I couldn't find something close enough to what I wanted, so I made it and now wonder if anyone else would find it useful.
Longer version:
This is a side project I've been working on for a little while. The intention was originally to have a complete reference for XHTML that can be viewed as a hierarchy. Starting with a list of all elements, which can be clicked to expand the attributes and other information beneath it. Which can then be clicked to view information beneath them, and so on.
As I've gone along I've tried to keep it simple so that it could potentially be used to navigate through other hierarchical information. For example I plan to do other HTML versions and CSS as well, but with some tweaking I think it could be used for non-web design data.
It's quite basic at the moment. I have ideas for other features, like being able to resize column widths and an easy way to zoom in and out. Also, some of the descriptions I've added are a bit rushed because I just wanted to see what it would look like finished.
Would anyone else find this kind of reference useful? Or have any other thoughts/suggestions?
(Note: only tested in Firefox, Opera and IE7. IE messes up the widths.)