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This is a CSS stylesheet to theme your Hacker News in a Windows95/98 style

bobbyz 6y ago
You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up
- DiabloD3 6y ago
  I think Chrome killed off that one popular extension for CSS insertion?
- bobbyz 6y ago
  Reminds me of those times when I built a website that doesn't have a functioning mobile view, put it on reddit, and it turns out that everybody is mobile
- salusinarduis 6y ago
  Maybe 5% total user share. Certainly the tech oriented crowd uses Firefox at a greater rate.
  - bobbyz 6y ago
    My analytics also indicate 5%. Just how tech oriented are the folks you have in mind?
- userbinator 6y ago
  Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesheet_customcss_support_removed_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh... (The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions route.) Ironically, IE11 is the last MS browser to support user stylesheets (Tools->Options->Accessibility) but Edge doesn't. Even in Firefox, the fact that it's named "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" is ominous. The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.
  - myfonj 6y ago
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016 Issue asking for reintroducing native user style sheets in Chrome, with precise argumentation and long discussion. Does not seem likely to be heard, but symbolical starring doesn't hurt…
  - encom 6y ago
    >The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible. That's because the webbrowser has been pushed away from hyperlinked documents viewer, to essentially a virtual machine running untrusted code from anywhere. It's probably Googles fault somehow. They seem determined to ruin everything.
  - bobbyz 6y ago
    It would be helpful if this could have been indicated
- 627467 6y ago
  Surely one of those other 95% of users can contribute with instructions that apply them.
- browsergap 6y ago
  You could probably make a bookmarklet to pull the stylesheet from github and add it to the document stylesheets. Maybe using the new Stylesheet constructor?
- red2awn 6y ago
  There are a few chrome extensions for adding custom CSS. Try "stylebot" or "User javascript and css", they both works ok.
- anticensor 6y ago
  Use Stylish/Stylus.
- tomc1985 6y ago
  You made fun of Firefox. That cracked me up
  - bobbyz 6y ago
    Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that will access your site using Firefox, or you don't support Firefox.
    - tomc1985 6y ago
      It's a shame that laziness is more important than interoperability. Part of the life of frontend or webdev is dealing with compatilibity issues, and it has been that way since forever. If you got into this biz thinking you could do that work and avoid those problems you thought wrong.
      - bobbyz 6y ago
        Laziness? Don't you mean unpractical and financially unviable? If I support Firefox do I support Edge, Opera, Android Webview, UC Browser? Explain how pragmatic prioritization can constitute as laziness.

You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up

DiabloD3 6y ago
I think Chrome killed off that one popular extension for CSS insertion?
bobbyz 6y ago
Reminds me of those times when I built a website that doesn't have a functioning mobile view, put it on reddit, and it turns out that everybody is mobile
salusinarduis 6y ago
Maybe 5% total user share. Certainly the tech oriented crowd uses Firefox at a greater rate.
- bobbyz 6y ago
  My analytics also indicate 5%. Just how tech oriented are the folks you have in mind?
userbinator 6y ago
Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesheet_customcss_support_removed_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh... (The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions route.) Ironically, IE11 is the last MS browser to support user stylesheets (Tools->Options->Accessibility) but Edge doesn't. Even in Firefox, the fact that it's named "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" is ominous. The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.
- myfonj 6y ago
  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016 Issue asking for reintroducing native user style sheets in Chrome, with precise argumentation and long discussion. Does not seem likely to be heard, but symbolical starring doesn't hurt…
- encom 6y ago
  >The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible. That's because the webbrowser has been pushed away from hyperlinked documents viewer, to essentially a virtual machine running untrusted code from anywhere. It's probably Googles fault somehow. They seem determined to ruin everything.
- bobbyz 6y ago
  It would be helpful if this could have been indicated
627467 6y ago
Surely one of those other 95% of users can contribute with instructions that apply them.
browsergap 6y ago
You could probably make a bookmarklet to pull the stylesheet from github and add it to the document stylesheets. Maybe using the new Stylesheet constructor?
red2awn 6y ago
There are a few chrome extensions for adding custom CSS. Try "stylebot" or "User javascript and css", they both works ok.
anticensor 6y ago
Use Stylish/Stylus.
tomc1985 6y ago
You made fun of Firefox. That cracked me up
- bobbyz 6y ago
  Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that will access your site using Firefox, or you don't support Firefox.
  - tomc1985 6y ago
    It's a shame that laziness is more important than interoperability. Part of the life of frontend or webdev is dealing with compatilibity issues, and it has been that way since forever. If you got into this biz thinking you could do that work and avoid those problems you thought wrong.
    - bobbyz 6y ago
      Laziness? Don't you mean unpractical and financially unviable? If I support Firefox do I support Edge, Opera, Android Webview, UC Browser? Explain how pragmatic prioritization can constitute as laziness.