http://blog.userstyles.org Adventures in development - Web standards and Firefox extensions Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:56:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When userstyles.org started, I had to keep in mind the various ways people could use the system in ways I hadn't intended. People might create spam entries, use the site to host images, post things that aren't CSS, etc. I wrote code to put restrictions on styles so that I ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2008/04/06/lessening-restrictions-for-trusted-authors/ Google turned black today day because of Earth Hour. If you'd like to make this change permanent, you can use Stylish with Google Web Search - dark gray redesign (vC) or any of the other dark Google styles. In fact, when I first saw the black Google page, I thought it ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2008/03/29/make-google-earth-hour-permanent/ Stylish has won a spot in the top three extensions ported to Songbird. I'm not too sure about the criteria for being in the top 3 other than "awesome". Nice to be recognized, in any case. I give my thanks back to Stephen Lau of Songbird for the help. In case ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2008/03/07/stylish-is-top-3-awesomest-for-songbird/ Available here. 0.5.5 welcomes back Russian users, fixes an issue with running Songbird with different "feathers", added compatibility with eMusic Remote and Firefox 3 beta 3. 0.5.4, which got lost on addons.mozilla.org somehow, added Songbird and Firefox 3 beta 2 support and the zh-CN locale. http://blog.userstyles.org/2008/02/12/stylish-055-released/ The next version of Stylish is under development and will be Toolkit 1.9 (Firefox 3) only. Major goals of this release include: Taking advantage of updates to the Mozilla platform. This includes functional additions, performance improvements, and code reductions. Injection of Stylish UI into logical places in the existing Firefox UI, rather ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2008/02/12/plans-for-stylish-10/ As you may have noticed, or may not have if you have some sensible styles, there are text ads all over the site. These ads pay fairly well (especially considering I don't have to do any work for the money), so I thought I might give back to those who ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2007/11/19/giving-back-to-style-authors/ After moving from Dreamhost to HostingRails I noticed my bandwidth had gone up. On Dreamhost, I was averaging 40GB per month, and on HostingRails, I was averaging 60GB/month. This was a problem because I had bought the 50GB per month plan on HostingRails, and had to either pay extra or ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2007/11/13/rails-bandwidth-and-http-content-encoding/ This is how to include a PHP script inside a Rails template. Got this useful tidbit from Rails Forum. The equivalent of: is Those are back quotes, otherwise known as a capital tilde. You'll obviously need PHP installed on your server for this to work. http://blog.userstyles.org/2007/11/12/php-includes-in-rails/ Stylish has made the pages of PC World Magazine! Not just PC World Magazine Online, but the actual magazine you can go and buy. It's one of Eight Great, Simple Ways to Hack the Web. It even includes a screenshot of Valacar's Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC). ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2007/10/28/stylish-in-pc-world-magazine/ Since I put in a feature to directly link to the forums directly from each style's page, I've been finding that users assume that the forum will know which style they're talking about. The two solutions to this are to convince the user otherwise or to make the assumption true. ... http://blog.userstyles.org/2007/10/04/modifying-vanilla-to-include-additional-data-on-threads/