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You aren't alone and some go even further! I make my own "enhancement suite" for any website I frequent. I blacklist all Javascript by default and whitelist on
by Nadya 10y ago
You aren't alone and some go even further!
I make my own "enhancement suite" for any website I frequent. I blacklist all Javascript by default and whitelist only Javascript necessary for things to function. I use Greasemonkey to add my own functionality to a page, sometimes blacklisting the "default" functionality and rolling my own code to replace it in a more "me-friendly" way. And finally, Stylish, so that I can completely nuke the site's CSS and roll out my own.
But most users won't go through that. They'll use the default browser font and never change it.
Corporate doesn't want to use Arial on the site, so we have a problem with the browser default. Luckily the designer has threatened to quit before they use Comic Sans. At best, they'll pick a nice legible font and at worst they'll pick something "aesthetic" that may be a pain in the ass to read. Usually you get somewhere in the middle or a (sans-)serif font from Google Fonts.
Once upon a time I could trick corporate into using Helvetica, but it seems to have "fallen out of fashion". They don't actually look at the font, they just know what they "don't want" and what they "don't want" is Arial.
- dom0 10y agoFor some sites I use a lot I do this as well. Mostly CSS fixes, for example widening GitHub's layout to some 1300px. But also removing annoying "design-crap", substituting fonts etc.
- scholia 10y agoWould it be feasible to have an "enhancement pack" website where less talented people (ie me) could get fixes like this. I remember doing stuff like this with Proxomitron in the good old days....
- Nadya 10y ago>Would it be feasible to have an "enhancement pack" website where less talented people (ie me) could get fixes like this. Sort of? At least if I'm understanding you properly. :) It used to be that userscripts.org was a thing. Now I think you need to use a mirror [0]. There is also a subreddit for them [1]. Stylish should have a similar site for themes - although not all userscripts will work properly with Stylish (styles may break functionality that relies on styles being a certain way). For a few sites, I think people have made "generators" for stylesheets to make it user-friendly to generate your own userstyle. I'm not aware of any offhand though. It would be nice to have a more "curated" or organized Userscripts site, since not all of them are site-specific. The two most popular "enhancement suites" are the Youtube Enhancement Suite and the Reddit Enhancement Suite, both of which do countless things and are extremely "heavyweight" in functionality/features. My personal "enhancement suites" are a lot smaller in scale and public usability. :) [0] https://userscripts-mirror.org/ https://userscripts-mirror.org/ [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/userscripts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/userscripts/
- jccalhoun 10y agoGreasyfork is the replacement for userscripts https://greasyfork.org/en https://greasyfork.org/en
- dredmorbius 10y agoWhat happened to userscripts.org?
- scholia 10y agoMany thanks. Some good pointers there....
- dredmorbius 10y agoI pretty much taught myself CSS fixing fucked-up shit I didn't like on sites I was visiting, through Stylebot and (now) Stylish. Stylebot is slightly easier to get started with, but Stylish is a better and more powerful tool, also available for Firefox. I haven't got into JS yet. Otherwise, installing GS scripts or Stylish themes works.
- hlandau 10y agoI'm fond of Verdana, which is what this site is using. Also Trebuchet MS, which has a slightly quirky feel.