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

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

If I'm reading someone else's journal, rather than my friends page or a comment in mine, I'll do so on their style ... most of the time. But some people use LJ styles that are either "Aaaagh! My EYES!!!" or, frankly, just plain unreadable. I'm glad not to have to put up with those.


As for people reading my journal in their style ... well, I like to think my style is fairly clean, uncluttered and readable. But they are going to miss out on some of my CSS text formatting. This may (probably will) mean certain posts will not look to them as they're intended to. Their loss.