Re: User stylesheets with mozilla browsers

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:21:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:22:16PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> You can use some custimozations (bigger text, no background images nor
>> underline links) but changing the whole site default layout for each
>> site on-the-fly is not something that can be 100% automated ;-(
> 
> This web page is only a couple year old and looks promising:
> 
>   http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/07/22/multi-column-layout-with-css-
and-jquery/
> 
> It does state that, in 2008 at least, there was no ‘native CSS support
> for multi-column newspaper-style layouts’. Not sure if this still hold
> true.

I think you got it wrong :-)

Today's CSS styles techniques can split (x)html/xml output quite nicely 
and work great in all kinds all layouts (columns or whataever). 
Webmasters can make use of them and embed the code in their web pages 
(like does the code you referenced). That's the part it takes "web 
design".

References:

http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/css-layouts/

But if I understood you correctly, you were looking for a way to 
dynamically change the layout of a web page you are viewing not designing,
(you as "user", not as "webmaster"), and that is very hard. You can use 
browser add-ons and tell Firefox (or Chrome...) to use custom CSS styles 
for web pages but one CSS "does not fit all" so people makes CSS  
templates to specifically customize every site (the CSS template for 
Google does not work for Facebook and so...).

In brief: you cannot change the layout design of every web page, only the 
person who makes the code of that page can. It's up to them, not you ;-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón