"style=mine"

[acroyear]

Finding someone's LJ page (or comments page) to be to difficult to read 'cause of colors or fonts? Finding it even more difficult because some CSS entry yarfs up a mess in netscape 4.x?

well, you can make that page look like your own much more readable page very simply.

Go to the URL entry in the address bar at the top of your browser and add "?style=mine" or "&style=mine" (if there's already a ? in the url like "?mode=reply") to the end of it and hit return. you should see the page re-rendered to look like what your own settings are.

thus, to see my last entry, MY way, hit http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/102225.html and to see that entry YOUR way, hit http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/102225.html?style=mine

there's a way to make that "mostly" the default, by setting a config parameter in LJ somewhere, but i 1) can't find it, and 2) found it didn't work 100% of the time. it also doesn't work with any system pages like anything ending in .bml.

The way to set it is described in http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=175

Comments

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

If you take this route, be aware, to put a comment in the page you click the comment button, 'run' to the the stop button on your browser, add the &style=mine to the URL, then hit return. If you are not fast enough either your browser will quit (annoying) or freeze up to the point you have to Force-quit it (also annoying).

Alternatively you can hover over the comment link, memorize the URL, type it in the location space, add the &style=mine, and proceed as above.

For ones that merely don't appear when you try to look at them and/or their comments (e.g. faireraven) the solution works fine and you can implement it when needed.