EditCSS and User-Styled Sites

I’ve never gotten much into the idea of user style sheets–the idea of which is to use a CSS file on your computer to override the style of the sites you visit–because so many sites are developed using proprietary styles and colors for the layout and display. By overriding them, you rarely see pages the way you want, unless the original page is entirely unstyled.

But it’s still fun for me to use Firefox’s EditCSS extension to view my and others’ sites using the stylesheets of someone else. To do so, you open the EditCSS panel while on a site whose style you like (for example, John Gruber’s Daring Fireball). Then click a link in that page or type another address into the address bar. Since the EditCSS extension is designed to use whatever’s in its panel to override the page’s declared styles, you now see the new site using the old CSS styles. Fun for copying, and stealing…

• John Gruber’s Google:

  

• Apple through a ryskamp.org lens (the image borders kill this one)

  

• The ISIS BlenderBlog prototype with a new Blogger template

  

• And how it’s supposed to look