pearweb look and feel / user styles

While I was fighting the patch upload process earlier today, I found myself picking on old pearweb a little bit much. "It needs more padding" and "argh, those dashed borders"; and all sorts of other unfair little CSS criticisms crept into my mind. Rather than waste time with putting in feature requests for css enhancements one at a time; and too lazy to create patches, I remembered stylish ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108); which lets you customise CSS on pages. Subsequently, I did a bit of tweak or two to suite my personal preferences ( http://userstyles.org/style/show/2267) - but I'm sure there's a lot more that could be done. It got me thinking - this is a very good way to do minor design enhancements without having to muck about in code; or implement something 'wrong'. So I put it to the mailing list: 1. Find the page(s) you find difficult to use or just plain offend your sense of aesthetics 2. Install stylish (and firebug doesn't hurt; so you can inspect page items) 3. Add a user style or two to fix the problem(s) 4. Put it on userstyles.org (a community site, think greasemonkey + userscripts.org but for CSS) 5. Share back with the mailing list After a while with several user styles out there, we could actually implement the best/most desirable css improvements - or at least ticket them. If it proves useful enough, inserting a lot more css classes / ids across the pearweb site could lay an even denser foundation for others to build on too...