My Style: Custom CSS for unappealing sites you visit (opens in new tab)

Downvoted for unnecessary snark and the non-apology in your edit (disagreement with tone is not misunderstanding). There are gentler and better ways to express this, e.g.:

Have you had a look at Greasemonkey or Stylish?

Because you can use greasemonkey to do the same thing doesn't make this worthless, and even if this replicated what greasemonkey does exactly (which it doesn't), it might still be an interesting take on an old problem. Reinvention is a great way to learn, and not very damaging for anyone else, so why not do it now and then? As long as you're willing to admit other versions might be better than your attempt, I see nothing wrong with it.

As a good example of reinvention which actually solved a lot of real world problems, see Linux (reinventing MINIX, but eventually diverged hugely), which started thus:

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

Even if he is planning on spending a lot of time on it, he will probably:

1. Be doing something he loves 2. Gain experience and improve his skills 3. Expand his portfolio 4. Makes friends and connections and get valuable feedback 5. Learn what it's like to try to beat a competing product 6. Maybe fail, and learn from it 7. etc.

"similar functionality has been around for a long time"

That doesn't matter to a lot of people in a lot of situations. We just keep on coding.

If this thread was entitled "Show HN: The new karthikv OS" or "Show HN: Introducing the Google Search killer", then yeah, spending a lot of time on that kind of thing (especially for free) might be foolish.

You should probably edit your comment a 2nd time and delete the first two sentences because they make you sound like an ass. And, you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin... incredible. Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?

Does Greasemonkey make it easy to modify styles as well? This is simple if you can insert arbitrary JS, but it'll be annoying if you need to write JS to insert CSS for every site you want to edit. I just wanted a simple way to edit CSS without having to go to my editor or a different web page, especially for sites that I visit often. Perhaps the tool I was looking for did already exist.

No need to be a jerk about it. And, I particularly like how it makes it easy to tweak the page in real-time.

What's your point? Maybe he did it because it was an itch he wanted to scratch. It would be more useful to critique his project and maybe offer some constructive criticism, than to offer this snark.

Greasemonkey kind of stinks for injecting CSS -- you get a flash of the original content before your userscript is injected into the site and it just looks bad compared to using Stylish.

Also Stylebot - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

Oh, no I haven't. Looks like they beat me to it in terms of features and sharing.

It seems like they could make it easier to use, though. You have to go to their custom styles page and add CSS without seeing its effects directly. Their userstyles.org website also needs some help (perhaps someone should make a stylish style for userstyles.org itself). Nevertheless, the sharing features are quite nice. I wanted to add such sharing capability myself.

Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey also allows this. Been using it for a few years: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf...

Also:

Inject JS: https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

Inject CSS: https://github.com/stewart/dotcss/

You make a good point. I'll fix this ASAP. I was also under the impression that the meta key mapped to the Windows key, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Edit: Just updated the shortcut to control + m. Let me know if you continue to experience troubles.

Yes, event.altKey would seem a better choice as it maps to Alt on Windows and Option on the Mac. Not sure about Chromebooks (which don't even have any modifier keys other than Shift) or Linux though. Or mobile browsers.

I always thought that the key with the Windows logo was the meta key. Does it map out to something different?

for firefox and js, I always used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey

for custom css... I clearly remember that old firefox version could let me set custom css, no plugin needed...

That's great to hear. Thanks for the feedback.

Oh, that's interesting. All the content is on *.betterinternet.me, though. I feel an extension keeps the content on the owner's site, while simultaneously allowing the custom design that one wants.

Perhaps this model can provide further customization options, though.

You could probably use a bookmarklet to inject the css via javascript.