Archive for November, 2006

Stylish review

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Someone posted a very long review on the add-ons site.  While the score of the review was only 1/5, I found the text very interesting. The reviewer raised some good points.

When a search doesn’t yield any styles, the site should suggest to check the global styles. It did that until yesterday, when I did some […]

Friendly competition

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I’ve put up a statistic page that lists the top ten users by various criteria. A few of the results are surprising in that I hadn’t noticed certain users before. Others are surprising by how far ahead the #1 is.
Feel free to suggest top ten lists that you’d like to see.

Wow, sucky feeds!

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Now that I’ve started using Google Reader, I see why people have been complaining about the feeds from this site. Every single one of the New or Updated feed items reappears once a day. Sorry about that. I wasn’t sure whether it was a reader bug (because Thunderbird seems mostly fine with it) or a […]

Useful new feed

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

There are now feeds hooked up to each user’s page that spit out people’s comments on styles by that user. This should be very useful to authors, who now can be better informed and more responsive to others’ comments.
What other bits of information do you style authors think would be useful? Install counts? Rankings of […]

Hey Greasemonkey and Opera users

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Many styles are now available as user scripts. Styles that have user scripts available will have a “Load as user script” button them. Since Greasemonkey and User JS can only affect content, no application styles have the option. Also, styles must have one or no -moz-doc-rules (since Greasemonkey scripts can’t easily do separate things to […]

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