Error downloading custom class plugin

[garretwilson]

I tried to download Prism with the "coy" theme, all languages, and the following plugins:

• Line Numbers
• Custom Class
• Keep Markup
• Command Line

The web pages displayed the following error:

An error occurred while fetching the file "plugins/custom-class/prism-custom-class.css".

[LeaVerou]

That probably happens because the Custom Class plugin doesn't come with any CSS. Is there any actual issue?

[garretwilson]

I haven't tried it yet --- I assumed a big error message meant that there was an error. I didn't want to waste my time when the site clearly told me that something was wrong.

[LeaVerou]

Technically, the site told you nothing. It's not the site's fault you were peeking at the console. AFAIK there's actually no way to client-side check if a file exists without a 404 showing up in the console.
So, as long as there's no actual issue, I'm closing this. Feel free to reopen if there is!

[garretwilson]

Er, @LeaVerou, I'm not talking about the console. I'm talking about HTML message right there on the page.

Did you try to reproduce this?

[garretwilson]

[garretwilson]

Feel free to reopen if there is!

I don't seem to have permissions on this project to reopen this issue. But don't you agree that the message above sure looks like there was a real error, and that something went wrong?

[garretwilson]

Technically, the site told you nothing.

Technically... I need to drink some tequila. It's been a long, frustrating day. But I'm going to bed and save the tequila for tomorrow. Good night.

[zeitgeist87]

It should be fixed with ba64f8d. The property noCSS: true was missing for the Custom Class plugin in components.js. By default the downloader assumes, that there is a CSS file.

[LeaVerou]

Yeah, sorry for the misunderstanding, this does look like a bug. Probably a bug with the site though, not with your bundle, so still try downloading, I bet there won't be any issue.

[garretwilson]

Thanks @zeitgeist87 and @LeaVerou; it seems I was able download the custom class plugin.

But the plugin seems completely broken; see #1137.

Please, could someone go to #1055 (comment) and tell me why I have to go through this whole rigmarole in the first place? Why can't Prism simply prefix all its classes with something (anything!) by default, to avoid intercepting my own classes?