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TorgoX
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Journal of TorgoX (1933)

Thursday August 18, 2005
06:10 AM

BoingBoing BongBong

[ #26351 ]
Dear All,

To make BoingBoing's crappy 1997-style HTML look tolerable: install URI id, then add this to your ~/.mozilla/firefox/[jumbly stuff]/chrome/userContent.css file:

body#www-boingboing-net,
body#www-boingboing-net *
{
  /* Or however you like it: */
  background-color: black !important;
  color: white !important;
  font-size: 20px !important;
}
body#www-boingboing-net td[width="125"],
body#www-boingboing-net td[width="150"],
body#www-boingboing-net td[width="800"][height="90"]
{ display: none;  }

Then restart Firefox for the change to take.

CSS is fun.


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  • There's also BoingBoing Lite [dialedin.us], which lets you filter out some of the crap content along with the crap layout!
  • crappy 1997-style HTML look

    You have a problem with black text on a white background?

    --
    Bill
    # I had a sig when sigs were cool
    use Sig;
    • No, it's mostly the blindingly small font size that got me to write this. While I was at it, I just up and changed the font size, and killed the inane graphics.
      • Ah.

        Way too many websites have *fixed* widths wider than standard printer margins (e.g., Catalyst.org's Trac wiki) and fixed font sizes so the VIEW|FONT menu doesn't work. You shouldn't have to drop into CSS to fix these, if people followed usability / accessibility standards, we would just set our browser preferences to "Old Eyeballs" or "Young Eyeballs" and all would be fine ...

        Cheers!
        --
        Bill
        # I had a sig when sigs were cool
        use Sig;

  • More curiosity than anything else, but is there a specific reason for why you're using userContent.css instead of a quickie GM script ?

    It's probably my lack of familiarity with the chrome stuff and also my reluctance to mess with Firefoxy internal files speaking.

    • I'm just more at home with that CSS stuff than GreaseMonkey.
    • BTW, how would you (or you! or you!) do this as a little GreaseMonkey script?
      • Uh, I just whipped this up, so I'm not entirely sure if it's according to spec (tell me if it isn't etc). Behold, TorgoBoing 0.1

        // TorgoBoing

        // ==UserScript==
        // @name        torgoboing
        // @namespace     http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/download/
        // @description   What usercontent.css can do, Greasemonkey can do too
        // @include       http://*boingboing.net/*
        // ==/UserScript==

        function addGlobalStyle(css) {
            var head, style;
           

        • I suppose I should provide some explanation :) Oh, bother.

          Setting the sidebar divs to not display was my first choice, since that's the ugly part of the page. I also have a preference for having the page content take up the entire screen width, so I did my page widening hack. Hardcoding the pixel size is bad, I know :( Was too lazy to figure out a nicer way to do it. This is how I would have done it myself.

          I commented all of that out ultimately and replicated your usercontent.css logic though.

        • Wow, this is great! Thanks!

          For some reason I thought adding stylesheets at "runtime" like this wouldn't work, but obviously it works just fine.

          You're a superstar!

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