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Couldn't agree more. If user defined style-sheets worked (and if content and presentation were truly separated) the web would be a much better place.

When I was developing Readable, btw, I pretty much thought of it as a better implementation of user-defined styles. The text-parsing and main body text extraction is just my way of getting around the problem of content/presentation.

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BTW, this wasn't a bash at you at all (if you took it that way). More a lament that we ended up in this chicken-and-egg situation. No point in making user-css tools because there's so much inline style and mixing, and no point in moving towards building sites with user-defined CSS in mind because there's no good support in browsers.

Don't worry, I didn't take it in a bad way. And I do, actually, completely agree with you; I thought that my comment made that clear -- but I do appreciate you making sure I didn't take offense; that kind of courtesy is rare.

Back to our issue, though: if, tomorrow, browsers all got good enough at user-css that Readable wouldn't be needed anymore, I would gladly convert it into a one-page tutorial explaining to people how to set up their user-css :)

Yeah, I was probably writing back more to assure anyone else reading it that I wasn't bashing you :)

Thanks for some great work, by the way!

You are most welcome.

It was -- and still is -- my pleasure.

Awww..... group hug! :-)

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