> > One could easily say "It's my blog, why should what you want on your > reading page affect how I format/write/present my blog entries?
But it doesn't, the only thing it affects is what I, personally, see on my reading page. Your own journal's design and formatting are unaffected. Most everything on the 'net generally defaults to bloggers posting > what they want, letting readers choose whether they want to read the > content *as provided* or not. > But that's not true, either. I can read your blog through my RSS reader, which has previews of a certain length instead of vomiting up the post whole hog, and has completely different fonts and colors than your journal probably has because it's been customized to my preferences. Opera has userstyles and userscripts built in, Firefox has them as add-ons, people are browsing with their PDAs or mobile phones or even Lynx, FFS. *Fundamental Usability principle*: The user owns the interface. They control screen sizes, font sizes, colors. With userscripts and other Firefox add-ons they control far, far more than that, *and that's exactly how it should be*. In fact, someone could probably write a GM script to do exactly what's been proposed here. Maybe they already have<http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=livejournal&x=0&y=0>. This just saves people the trouble of installing separate software and allows them to keep the functionality no matter what computer or browser they're using. We already have placeholders for images and video, why not text, too?
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