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5 posts tagged “user-stylesheets”

2008

24 ways: User Styling. The web geek advent calendar is up and running again this year, with a striking new design.

# 3rd December 2008, 9:08 am / 24-ways, css, design, jon-hicks, user-stylesheets

2007

Google Reader Theme. Jon Hicks’ beautiful alternative skin for Google Reader, installable as a user stylesheet for various browsers.

# 16th April 2007, 10:03 pm / google, google-reader, jon-hicks, skin, user-stylesheets

2004

Site-specific extensions

I’ve been thinking about per-site user stylesheets for a while now, but my colleague Adrian has gone one better: his All Music Guide Corrector extension for Firefox fixes their horrible JavaScript links, hides the useless Flash navigation and improves their unpopular “read more” links, causing them to load content on the current page rather than navigating to a new page entirely.

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Per-site user stylesheets

I’ve been thinking a lot about per-site user stylsheets recently. Eric Meyer’s CSS signatures are great for sites that support them (as this site does), but the sites that really need altering are highly unlikely to carry them. I posted a comment to that effect on photomatt.net a while ago, and thankfully it was spotted by Ryan Tomayko who has published a simple brilliant hack that uses XBL in Mozilla’s user stylesheet to execute JavaScript which adds a CSS signature to every site you visit.

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integrating javascript into stylesheets (via) It’s a shame this trick doesn’t appear to work in user stylesheets

# 22nd January 2004, 5:13 am / css, javascript, user-stylesheets