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If your aim is to help people snazz up quick HTML pages, it would be helpful to have as simple URL to include the CSS. Something like watercss.com/light.css. This way, we don't even have to visit your GitHub to get the CDN URL. It'd save some time and make water.css the go-to for quick styling.

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you want him to be responsible for hosting parts of your site on his server?

how does it make any sense for him or for you?

It is in fact a common business model, known as a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A quick Google search will return many examples.

Most popular libraries (Bootstrap) or fonts are hosted on at least one CDN.

Business being the key term here - this kid is 13, and from what I can tell, doesn't make any money from this. How would it make sense for him to pay to have this available via CDN?

he already provides link to cdn. it seems that the parent didn't like that it was too long.

it could be a http redirect to the cdn

so he will be responsible to maintain the domain name and server for perpetuity, just for short link

The author already provides a CDN url. If they are so inclined, creating a memorable url (perhaps even a shortlink) would help with styling quick and dirty projects. I don't think people are doing to be running massive websites using this library.

Add the code as a snippet or associate it with a keyboard shortcut in your text editor. Then it's literally trivial to add it to an html page regardless of the URL.

Hosting it on their own means potential costs and more risk for users (domain expiry, high server loads, worse connection than yo a CDN).

I'd love to start a CDN! Wanna buy me a domain subscription?

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