15/09/07
gReader theme in Safari 3
Many thanks to Alexander Atallah for pointing out how to get the gReader theme working in Safari 3 again.
Forget SafariStand, and go get yourself CreamMonkey, the Greasemonkey style plugin for Safari. Once installed, you will see a smiley in your menubar, then when you visit these 2 pages on userstyles:
OS X Spinner for Google Reader
You will see a ‘Load as User Script’ button. Click this, and then ‘install’ when the sheet appears. You’ll then just need to refresh gReader.
It not only works in Safari 3, but it also only applies it to that URL, just like in Mozilla! So you shouldn’t be getting the style affecting other Google pages.
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Tags: google, googlereader, theme
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Boult said 240 days ago:
what’s wrong with dropping the css file in Safari folder via /Users/yourname/Library
then go to Google Reader page
then go to Safari’s preference under Advanced and use stylesheet menu to select greader.css then it switch to that theme. It works for me and I don’t know why it don’t work for alexander or others.
I am puzzled by needing either safaristand or creammonkey instead of just use Safari 2 or 3’s Style Sheet drop down menu under “Advanced” tab.
care to tell me why those is recommended over my method?
I hope you will provide zipped greader.css next time you update it. Thanks! It’s great theme!
David Hughes said 240 days ago:
Marvellous!!!
Jon Hicks said 240 days ago:
Boult – yes, I do care to tell you. If you do that, the css is applied to EVERY page you go to. It may be that you don’t come across any similar class names, but these extensions allow you to load the css FOR THAT PAGE ONLY.
Also – the css is zipped. What do you mean?
Dominik Porada said 240 days ago:
Thank you, John. New gR’s appearance is awesome!
Thanks to you, I got awesome Safari plugin. :)
Allen said 240 days ago:
Thanks! Works (and looks) great!
Dale said 239 days ago:
Why does this theme render a box around the search box that makes it drop below the grey header? (in Safari 2.x)
Gary said 239 days ago:
Thank you so much! You did an awesome job with this skin. Keep up the good work!
wyctim said 239 days ago:
i just simply load your greader theme with pithhelmet. it works perfekt.
Rafa said 238 days ago:
Nice work!
Boult said 238 days ago:
Jon, Yes I am aware that once using that skin, it will appear on all sites… I only switch to that style when using gReader then switch to none before surfing to other sites.
what I mean by zipped.. in your previous entry, you provided zipped file of that gReader.css which was downloadable(so that way, it won’t load as text or whatever) so I hope you will keep providing it when you update it.
Eddie Sowden said 237 days ago:
Something about the name “creammonkey” just seems wrong to me. Perhaps its just the adolescent brain of mine.
bernd said 236 days ago:
did google change their site once again? there is a gap between my selectors-box and the search-bar-box and the same with my “main” message box and the search-bar-box. anyone else with the same “error”?
shaps said 236 days ago:
Google definitely changed their code again. The blue entry bar and home/all items/starred items/etc. have all been pushed down.
I wasn’t able to figure out how to get them back flush w/ the search area/options, however, you can reduce the selector-box’s height and reduce the line-height so that at least everything is displayed (Trends was pushed too far down due to the Google code change).
Here’s my implementation:
/* selectors box */
/* ———————————————————————————- */
#selectors-box { height: 0px; vertical-align: top;
}
#selectors-box td, #sub-tree-box td, #selectors-box .c, #add-box .c {
background: none !important;
}
#selectors-box li {
width: 240px;
margin: 1px 0 1px -9px !important;
line-height: 20px;
Dale said 234 days ago:
Any chance of an update (official) to fix this problem?