Never/only use it for evil.

March 30, 2011 5:38 PM

CSSPivot: Add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link.
posted by brundlefly (23 comments total)

Meh. Userstyles is much more useful.

This one is pretty much indispensible for me.
posted by schmod at 5:57 PM on March 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

or Firebug?
posted by the noob at 6:26 PM on March 30, 2011

or Firebug?

I think you missed the bit about sharing it with a link.

This is awesome.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 6:35 PM on March 30, 2011

Take that - ThePinkSuperhero and 31d1.
posted by unliteral at 6:35 PM on March 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

I made an ugly
posted by The Power Nap at 6:37 PM on March 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

Aha— my style still works, and here's the proof!
posted by yaymukund at 6:45 PM on March 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

I like this because I get sick of using plugins all the time for stuff like this. A web based service makes way more sense.
posted by thebestusernameever at 6:48 PM on March 30, 2011

Oh yes. Brundlefly I kiss you.
posted by fonetik at 6:55 PM on March 30, 2011

I like this because I get sick of using plugins all the time for stuff like this. A web based service makes way more sense.

Not really, it breaks the URL.
posted by delmoi at 7:26 PM on March 30, 2011

On the other hand it does make for an interesting way to share CSS ideas.
posted by delmoi at 7:27 PM on March 30, 2011

Here's my quick take on the MeFi homepage

br{display: none;}

ftw
posted by delmoi at 7:40 PM on March 30, 2011 [9 favorites]

Much more professional.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:46 PM on March 30, 2011

Nice, but not my favorite CSS toy. This is.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:07 PM on March 30, 2011 [8 favorites]

delmoi, that's actually rather nice.
posted by cccorlew at 8:43 PM on March 30, 2011

Much more professional.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:46 PM on March 30 [+] [!]

If by professional you mean eye-bleedingly painful, I agree. Also, maybe eponyst-whatsit. I guess I'm just too used to terminals with white (and ansi colors) on black. Anything with too much of a pure white background just murders my peepers. Cranky *nix guy is cranky, ignore me.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 8:45 PM on March 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

Godspeed, see this for the reference.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:47 PM on March 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

Hrmm.. I can see the argument for clean (with white) as it seems less.. I dunno, fuck-aroundy for browsing at work? But in that case just strip out all the CSS and only show the .copy's and similar and you'd be good.

OTOH being "on the blue" is sort of a mefi-cultural identifier, so tossing it out the window would be a bit rash. Yeah stuff, probably should post on that thread.

As for this topic, this is pretty cool as a sort of crowd-sourced css-snob fest. Love it. It also reinforces that I'm glad I'm not a web dev, cuz I would suck balls at it.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 8:53 PM on March 30, 2011

Thanks for the post. This is potentially super-useful for me. I'll have to see if it works for the web-based service tracking system I have to use at work (for which my UI bug reports on layout-breaking problems go unheeded). Or the mobile-optimized metafilter frontpage, which I've been itching to tweak/fix since I got my iPhone.

Anyways, thanks!
posted by churl at 9:10 PM on March 30, 2011

Seconding approval for delmoi's take, it's kinda nifty. Not sure how great it'd be for everyday use yet. It'd probably be better if the boxes were slightly larger so fewer of them needed scrollbars.
posted by JHarris at 9:36 PM on March 30, 2011

I only read Metafilter for the links.
posted by twoleftfeet at 10:58 PM on March 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

Finally, vaguely dickish CSS besserwissers everywhere have a tool for easily sharing their condescending "oh you spent two months on a redesign, how nice, here's a version that doesn't suck" layout modifications.

Only somewhat kidding.
posted by jklaiho at 11:08 PM on March 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

twoleftfeet: "I only read Metafilter for the links"

No, really.
posted by brundlefly at 9:57 AM on March 31, 2011

You are here.
posted by togdon at 4:04 PM on March 31, 2011 [1 favorite]