The Hickensian

∞ Ivan Brezak Brkan said 1030 days ago:

Finally I can use Google Reader! Thanks Jon!

∞ SkylarP said 1030 days ago:

Very, very slick. (Just like the Bloglines one!)

What are the chances that Newsgator might make it onto your to do list? I sync with NetNewsWire, so the other online aggregators aren’t much of an option for me…

∞ josue salazar said 1030 days ago:

Works perfectly in OW. Thanks.

∞ Paul said 1030 days ago:

Sorry, not exactly ontopic. Is it possible to change the default rss reader in safari to google reader. Similiar like you can do this in firefox.

∞ gulup said 1030 days ago:

i’ve a problem with safari. didn’t work :( safari stand is installed, i’ve done everything whats said in installation guide. is there a bug? or a problem with another stand extension?

∞ gulup said 1030 days ago:

Hi Jono, thank you for the hint, but it didn’t work :( Has somebody another idea?

∞ Bruce Boughton said 1030 days ago:

Gosh! That is beautiful. Who said functional couldn’t be beautiful? Thanks Jon for the work you’ve put into this. I’ll be running it from now on so we’ll see if I find any bugs!

∞ Mario Estrada said 1030 days ago:

Looks very nice… It might take a while to get used to it, but it really looks ver beautiful!

∞ Anton Andreasson said 1030 days ago:

Love it, thanx a bunch!

∞ Khaled Abou Alfa said 1030 days ago:

Thank god for that. I might actually take a look at that little plugin and do one for gmail because that place definitely needs some love like this. Good work.

∞ Eli Horne said 1030 days ago:

Looks great! this is the first time I’ve really fired up stylish even though I’ve had it installed for some time. thanks for the prompt.

∞ Caleb said 1030 days ago:

Now all i need is a theme for Google Calander and a copy of MailPlane

∞ Paul Annesley said 1029 days ago:

Very nice indeed.

The only small glitch I can see is incorrect indentation for feeds in the left-hand list when they are within a folder.

Nice work :)

∞ Riddle said 1029 days ago:

It looks wonderful. I’m only worried about „Feed settings” – whole panel seems too high, folder selection is too big and icon doesn’t look good on blue background.

∞ Stéphane said 1029 days ago:

Beautiful! I think this theme might convince me to switch from Bloglines.

∞ Saravanan said 1029 days ago:

Wonderful design. I am loving it. Thanks Hicks.

You may want to update this theme for trends page also.

∞ Thomas said 1029 days ago:

Freakin’ Awesome!! Thanks

∞ chad said 1029 days ago:

I agree—we need a Gmail skin of this caliber, stat! Keep up the great work!

∞ gulup said 1029 days ago:

@Jon: Seems there is a problem with Stand by me, because i’m already using PithHelmet. I’ve “installed” the css file in PithHelmet (there is also the possibility like in Stand) and it works fine. Wonderful work. Thanks.

∞ Googlisti said 1029 days ago:

Perfectly working in Firefox!
It’s such a nice style: we’re waiting for Gmail Skin too!

∞ matte said 1029 days ago:

I noticed that the “cursor” when using the shift-j/k keys wasn’t showing up. the background-color was set to “transparent”. updating to the following will bring it back. style with whatever background color you like.

#sub-tree li a.cursor {
-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;
background: #c3d9ff !important;
}

and +1 for the “u” key not working as it should. the post area should expand to fill the viewport when the leftnav goes away. looking at how to fix that now. I love Firebug.

otherwise. slick.

∞ Kate Bolin said 1029 days ago:

I had some doubts (just because I like the giant rounded corners for some reason…they make me happy), but then I tried it out and…yowza.

I shall never doubt you again!

∞ Jon Hicks said 1029 days ago:

OK, I’ve sorted out 2 bugs that were annoying most people: I’ve reinstated feed list highlighting and pressing U now shows the entries list full width. Please re-download and try them out.

∞ MrQwest said 1029 days ago:

Jon, this is fantastic! This may just push me into using googles reader rather than my Bloglines (with your styles added obv.).

One thing though, Any chance you could make the actual feed stand out a bit more. When i click on a folder to view all the feed items from multiple feeds, it takes a while for me to see what feed has produced the item. If that makes sense?

Top work though, well impressed!

∞ Chris said 1029 days ago:

Too bad SafariStand accepts only google.com URL pattern, it doesn’t work with the /reader/view/ part.
Still, the skin is looking good!

∞ bradley said 1029 days ago:

I reallty can’t get over how well this actually worked!

please, please, please, a skin for gmail!

∞ Rick said 1029 days ago:

Wow, this is gorgeous! I know Google might change the markup suddenly, but I would love to see Gmail with this skin! Thanks John

∞ Kawamao said 1029 days ago:

Nice work and thanks..:)

∞ phlyingpenguin said 1029 days ago:

This is wonderful! Though I see how much work is involved, it’d be great to see a few good folks working on a gmail theme like this, whew.

The only bone I have to pick about this css theme is that I can’t tell which news article I have selected other than the one that is at the top, which isn’t always the case. I played around for a few moments with what I’m assuming were close to the classes I wanted to modify, but haven’t found what I’m after yet. There are borders on the selected news article in list view, but not in expanded view. I probably ought to be working instead of playing with this :)

Thanks for the great work!

∞ John said 1029 days ago:

I’m having a strange problem:
I’m using Safari. The stylesheet loaded fine, but when I use 2-finger scrolling on my iBook, the whole theme scrolls down. If I manually grab the scroll bar and drag it, everthing works fine, but 2-finger scrolling destroys it. Any idea how to fix it?

∞ John said 1029 days ago:

With regard to my previous post, 2-finger scrolling causes the WHOLE theme to scroll down by about 3 inches

∞ Kevan said 1029 days ago:

Can you add https:// to your standard list of what it works with? I read my greader securely.

∞ Nathan Monk said 1029 days ago:

Fantastic! You have introduced me to Safari Stand also. Its a shame you cant do it without but you have made a really nice intergration for macintoshes everywhere!

∞ Matt said 1029 days ago:

This looks amazing, thank you!

∞ Phil Bowell said 1029 days ago:

Great style John, I have set it up in Safari using SafariStand. One thing though, it seems to be letting some of the styles spread into the rest of Google. Is there any way to stop this? So that my personal home page and searches are not affected?

∞ Patrick said 1029 days ago:

This looks great and is a wonderful demonstration of the power of CSS. Unfortunately I find myself missing the ‘boxiness’ of the default gReader UI a bit because I find it hard to separate one feed item from the next, or determine which item is currently selected; with only one thin grey line as a separator (which is actually located mid-item) everything just seems to blend together for me.

∞ Nick said 1029 days ago:

For some reason the .zip becomes corrupted when I try to download it. I’ve tried re-downloading a few times now and it still shows up as a bunch of giberish when I try to view the greader css file. Is anyone else having this problem?

If someone has the actual css for the Firefox version so I could paste it in I’d greatly appreciate it.

∞ Janofran said 1029 days ago:

for localized versions change second line on code www.google.com/reader for yours i.e. mine is www.google.es/reader

∞ Patrick said 1029 days ago:

For what it’s worth, I made some very minor changes to one section of the .css and I’m very pleased with the new result, I think it fixed all the issues I was having with readability:

.entry-actions {
padding: 6px 0 6px 20px;
margin-top: 6px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-top:1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
}

∞ Zelnox said 1029 days ago:

Looks amazing ^_

∞ pankaj said 1029 days ago:

Very nice. Please change the color of STAR from green to default. Please.

∞ Justin said 1029 days ago:

As Maxim stated, the “loading” box in the center flickers on Firefox (mac).

Great job though – thanks!

∞ Jon Hicks said 1029 days ago:

Apologies for the Green Star everyone, that was my colourblindness slipping up – yes it looked orange to me! I can see the problem now.

As for a GMail skin – I won’t say never, but this skin has taken an awful lot of time, and I think GMail would be an even bigger project! Also, the demand has kind of taken me aback. over 40,000 visitors in one day? Blimey.

Other comments have been noted, and more revisions of the theme to come…

∞ Chad said 1029 days ago:

Jon, this thing’s one pippin design!!! I wonder if could upload it at userstyles.org so that Fx users can take advantage of Stylish’s in-built updates system.

∞ Matt Cutts said 1029 days ago:

Dude. That’s just fricking cool.

∞ Darrien said 1029 days ago:

Brightened up my day, thanks!

∞ Neil said 1028 days ago:

Absolutely, please please please do a gMail theme like this.

By the way, the tab order in your comments form seems funky in Firefox (only place I tested). Hitting tab in the name field sent me to the graphic in the top-right of your blog.

∞ USTommyMC said 1028 days ago:

I’m sure its been mentioned many times in the comments above but have you thought about doing one for GMail? Hopefully Google is looking at this and can make it an optional theme for both Reader and GMail. Simply beautiful, thank you so much for this.

∞ John Pettit said 1028 days ago:

This makes Google Reader soooo much better. Thanks for this Jon!

∞ Ioannus de Verani said 1028 days ago:

Wow! Awesome. I love it, thanks a milliard!

∞ Ian Yang said 1028 days ago:

i find this article through lifehacker and applied the css immediately in my firefox, but the fonts look a bit weird which (i suspect) probably has to do with the res of my monitor (1024*768). The red numbers which indicate the unread articles at the left sidebar appear too large that they cover the titles of the feeds, so i put something like font-soze:9px; in the #sub-tree li a .unread-count { then it looks much better. Thanks a lot for this nice css.

∞ Premal M Zaveri said 1028 days ago:

I have a problem on Firefox and it doesn’t work. Pls Help…

Problem : no changes visible in the Google Reader. Looks the same
What I did : I downloaded the zip file. Extracted it to the hard disk. Opened the greader (for Firefox) in Wordpad. Copied all. Opened ‘write style for this url’ when i had google reader opened. Pasted all in it. Saved it and restarted the browwser. I still see no changes.

Pls help…

∞ Ander said 1028 days ago:

I’m trying to download the ZIP file, but it seems to be corrupt. Does it only happen to me?

∞ Jon Hicks said 1028 days ago:

@Typos – The Refresh button is now bottom left, next to add subscription and settings buttons.

@Chad and others – no problem, but best to wait until it’s ‘final’ and I get all these little bugs sorted out.

Its a shame that with Omnniweb and Safari that the specific domain can’t be targeted, but thats the limitation of those methods at the moment.

The next version will include the ‘url-prefix’ suggested by Tobu, which means that the theme will work when adding feeds too.

∞ Arkhitekton said 1028 days ago:

Frustrated with using NetNewsWire and syncing using NewsGator (slow and inaccurate), I finally had a reason to switch to Google Reader – Jon’s excellent theme. Thankfully the horrible default Google typography has now gone. Love ya work!

∞ m_s said 1028 days ago:

oh, please – oh, please, please, please – won’t you make a good theme for 30boxes? i really can’t get along with any of the available ones for more than a few hours. your work here is so beautiful, and i just wish you would bring that to 30b. thank you for hearing my plaintive cry!

∞ Yichuan said 1028 days ago:

I’ve made an Userscript (for Greasemonkey in Firefox) for those who don’t want to install Stylish :)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8564

∞ Patrick said 1028 days ago:

while i like the design on opera, it is a little buggy in that it has caused opera to crash several times already.

so, i was wondering if someone could tell me how to change it back to regular google reader-look.

thanks.

∞ Sergio MORA said 1028 days ago:

Thanks Jon, it’s a very professional work. I’m going straight to the point.

Design & ergonomic comments :

# Long subscription names overlap new item count.

_I think red is a too strong color…
_I think the size of the subscriptions font (sidebar) is too big (Bloglines theme has a littler size and it’s more readable).

Dev comments:

_Fixing the oddities of the “sidebar” behavior in Safari, just shows that lack of good support for Safari of gReader is not just a problem of Webkit.

Cultural comments:

_Maybe this is your most web spread post ever? Al least your most digged post…
_You’ve been linked in the gReader official blog.
_Maybe Google would hire you as a style consultant (they are cool, but they need more style)

∞ David Hughes said 1028 days ago:

Fantastic! Thanks!

One request if I may be so bold…

I use J & K for moving between posts and find the post highlight that the deafult appearance uses very useful… any chance of adding that in? Oh go on…

Cheers

∞ Ken Walker said 1028 days ago:

Brilliant!

Um, can you do one for 30Boxes now? ;-)

∞ Alex Riabtsev said 1028 days ago:

uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0×8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getCharPref]” nsresult: “0×8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://utorrent/content/prefs.js :: anonymous :: line 36” data: no]

∞ Jeby said 1028 days ago:

For me, with SafariStand skin doesn’t work, but if i use the “custom css” option in Safari>Preferences>Advanced, it works (but it’s not a good solution!)

∞ Peter said 1027 days ago:

On a related note: Styling del.icio.us

∞ Dushan said 1027 days ago:

Thanks mate!

You just made reading blogs using Google Reader much more enjoyable.

Dushan

∞ leslie said 1027 days ago:

Hi Jon,

Sweet! Here’s the Apollo version:

GoogR: an Apollo-based Google Reader app, re-styled!

~L

∞ AHU said 1027 days ago:

good job, thanks

∞ Joe said 1027 days ago:

This is great, but there’s just one thing that seems weird; in the bar along the bottom, there’s one of those handles for dragging and resizing the left hand column, but it’s actually just an image!
Very nice otherwise!

∞ aaront22 said 1027 days ago:

I am using Mozilla have downloaded the stylish add on and the css file. Copied the text into a blank style page saved it. Restarted firefox logged into Google Reader it says it is enabled but nothing has changed. Thanks for any help.

∞ Aaron said 1027 days ago:

This is great! I now have a universal replacement for Newsfire that will work on my Mac at home and my PC at work.

∞ damien said 1026 days ago:

I said nothing… It works fine !

∞ Fubiz said 1026 days ago:

Excellent theme !

∞ Benoit said 1026 days ago:

I took Patrick’s modification (Post #77) and added my little twist on it. It separates the items pretty nicely…

.entry-actions {
padding: 6px 0 6px 20px;
margin-top: 6px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-top:1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
background: #eeeeee;
}

Now, I just have to find a way to somehow highlight the current item. I went through the entire stylesheet but can’t figure out how to change that… any idea?

∞ Jon Hicks said 1026 days ago:

Peter – its mentioned in the info.rtf in the download. Fixed for the next release though.

Also – current feed highlighting is something I’m working on for the next version.

Michel – that’s on purpose! Its important stuff that users need, just not all the time, so if you hover over the top 1px of the page, the menu is revealed!

∞ Edward said 1025 days ago:

This might sound really dumb, but is it possibe to get this to work in IE7?

Does IE have an add-on or does it natively support personal stylesheets?

∞ Chad said 1023 days ago:

@Benoit: This’ll make the title of the current post in the expanded view orange.

#entries:not(.list) > #current-entry .entry-title span {
color: #FF9900 !important;
}

∞ David said 1022 days ago:

I’m sure it’ll get lost in the list at this point, but thank you! Now Google Reader is something I can consider using! This makes it much easier to read and much more pleasing to the eye.

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∞ Benoit said 1021 days ago:

@ Chad: awesome… it works… thanks

∞ Jon Hicks said 1020 days ago:

@Chris – if search was important to you, then yes I can that would be a problem! In 4 years of RSS reading, I’ve never needed to search once!

∞ Jan Brašna said 1017 days ago:

Wow, this is truly impressive, Jon! I still prefer the former wooden BL theme, but this is amazing how much it resembles the current OSX human interface. [ Applause. ]

∞ Mark O. said 1016 days ago:

great work, jon. i really enjoy it. any word on when you’re going to push out a new version?

∞ Richie said 1015 days ago:

Fantastic!Thanks!!

∞ Oleg said 1014 days ago:

TRUE. I have same problem.

∞ Oleg said 1014 days ago:

I installed an updated theme. Clear the cache. A problem still remains.

∞ MilchFlasche said 1013 days ago:

Thank you for making such a stylish theme! It’s making the experience of reading on Google Reader more enjoyable! And also looking forward to the new version to suppress new Google changes:p

∞ asd said 1013 days ago:

NOt good. don’t understand

∞ wink said 1009 days ago:

hey – i’ll chip in a few bucks if you produce a gmail skin (if that makes it worth your while). nice work with the reader skin — you’ve inspired a switch from protopage for my rss feeds!