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

[herveus.livejournal.com]

I take advantage of the ability to automatically have that done when I view an LJ via my friends page. I use a very spare style. Many LJ styles are overdone with funky colors and layouts that detract from readability.

If someone wants to do the same while reading my LJ, that's their business. I don't own their browser.

You can apply various styling bits to your web page to try to impose a high level of control over the presentation. I can then go to my CSS menu and disable all styles. If your overproduced page turns into gibberish, it's not my problem, but I likely won't waste further time on it.