Question for Discussion...

[freetrav]

As you probably know, Livejournal allows you to append ?style=mine or &style=mine to a LJ URL. Doing so causes the LJ page to be displayed in the style of the viewer's LJ (if the page admits of having user styles applied). This may (probably will) be different from the style that the page's author (i.e., the owner of the LJ) chose to present his/her journal in.

Question the first

: How do you feel about using this when you are viewing someone else's LJ? Why do you chose to do it?

Question the second

: How do you feel about others using this when they view your LJ? Why?

This is deliberately not a poll, just an open question; comment and discussion is invited.

Comments

[kengr]

I do it because far too many people have styles srt that are almost unreadable due to color choices of font size.

Add in the folks who have *huge* borders, and readability goes way downhill.

As for folks using their own style when reading my LJ, I don't have a problem. I've got one of the really bare bones styles selected anyway.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I do it because far too many people have styles srt that are almost unreadable due to color choices of font size.

That. I have one friend whose scheme is such that the text is light gray on dark grey, and the cursor is exactly the same color as the background, so unless I use "style=mine" I'm almost typing blind when I comment on his posts. I don't understand why anyone would use something to hard to read and write. I've mentioned it, but he's never responded. Makes me wonder whether he somehow sees the text differently ... some subtle undisguised colorblindness which makes the foreground and background colors much more different for him, perhaps.