This was originally written in 2010, and may have been posted to the snipsnap bliki; when I rescued it I copied it to the blog but since decided it’s better on the wiki, although at least one of the links is now supported by the wayback machine, so maybe I should deprecate the post, but I’ll leave it to another day. At the moment, here are my old notes on stylish/user styles.
Since I don’t have full control over the look and feel of this blog, I had a look at userstyles.org. I have downloaded stylish and installed it into one of the copies of Firefox that I use. I then made some changes to my test site and installed a user style locally in Firefox, so it all worked quite well. I need to examine how to upload a style to the internet and allow a page to offer the download, as do some of the style pages in the gallery on their home page at userstyles.org.
The two use cases I was considering were
- offering you a different user experience while reading this blog,
- seeing if a user style, embedded in Chrome would make consuming the blog, and static site easier on an Android phone.
I have a feeling that since I control the HTML & CSS for my static site, user styles are not part of the answer and that taking full control of the blog so that I have control over the HTML & CSS is a better answer for the blog.
I might however write a user style for the NWN Vault, whose visual style, I find old fashioned and cluttered. I was reminded of how bad it is since I have used some of my xmas break to catch up on some playing time in Neverwinter Nights; I was using the vault to find some new games.
