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I love the design and the icons, but I'm not confident I'd want to spend $7 on something I could probably whip up in a few minutes in HTML + CSS.

I can see this being useful to a lot of non-tech-savvy bloggers, though. Good luck.

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A few minutes includes cross-browser testing? I have the feeling that this would take minimum 30-50 minutes. 7$ for that sounds decent, plus re-usable.

Given the supported browsers (IE9, Firefox 4, Safari 4, Safari 5, Opera, Chrome) I wouldn't think that is a major challenge. Essentially get it working in one and you have it working in all of the rest.

Yeah if you could get the supported browsers for IE back to IE7, I could see that improving the usefulness of your plugin.

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It's funny you mention the price because I thought that was a little high too. Code canyon decides on what price the items sell at, and as far as I know, the author has no control over that. Personally I was thinking maybe around four to five dollars but since commission is only 50% ill be ok with $7 :)

Don't worry too much about the "I could make this" people - there's plenty out there who couldn't, and plenty of people who'd rather just spend the money and move on than find out if it's a few minutes' work or not.

Oh this is Envato isn't it? Weird, I've sold stuff on AudioJungle before but I've never tried CodeCanyon. Hope you make a good profit :)

I don't think the price is high at all. 3.50 and 7 dollars are exactly the same to me. They're both below the fold in my mentality for something like this, and like other commenters have pointed out.. to build and cross browser test? Well even if you can whip it up in 20 or 30 minutes with testing, it's still worthwhile at seven bucks.

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