Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:48PM (#23935185)

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

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by userbinator on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:04PM (#23935277)

Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago:

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.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by encom on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:43AM (#23937546)

>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.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by myfonj on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:10AM (#23937377)

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…

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:44PM (#23944221)

It would be helpful if this could have been indicated

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by 627467 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:11PM (#23935319)

Surely one of those other 95% of users can contribute with instructions that apply them.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by salusinarduis on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:53PM (#23935217)

Maybe 5% total user share. Certainly the tech oriented crowd uses Firefox at a greater rate.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:43PM (#23944214)

My analytics also indicate 5%. Just how tech oriented are the folks you have in mind?

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by red2awn on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:50PM (#23935515)

There are a few chrome extensions for adding custom CSS. Try "stylebot" or "User javascript and css", they both works ok.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:50PM (#23935202)

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

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by DiabloD3 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:49PM (#23935197)

I think Chrome killed off that one popular extension for CSS insertion?

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by browsergap on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:45PM (#23935486)

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?

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by tomc1985 on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:31AM (#23936053)

You made fun of Firefox. That cracked me up

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:49PM (#23944262)

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.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by tomc1985 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:28PM (#23950904)

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.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by bobbyz on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:52AM (#23957949)

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.

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Re:Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95 by anticensor on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:17AM (#23935974)

Use Stylish/Stylus.

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