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.
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…
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.