One of the interesting side effects of separating style from content is the fact that it takes very little to redesign the style — even if it’s not your site.
In his programming journal, Mihai Parparita has a neat article about reskinning GMail with his own custom stylesheet.
However, there is nothing stopping one from going all out with client stylesheets and completely revamping the appearance of a site to suite one’s aesthetic sense (or lack thereof). To this effect, I have made a stylesheet that is designed to override the appearance of Gmail, not necessarily because I think my take on the UI is that much better, but because I wanted to show that it could be done.
He also spends a few moments talking abut his approach to hacking the GMail interface, which is probably the best example of obfuscated Javascript I’ve ever seen. It worked well. I was curious how it worked, but not curious enough to wade through all of the ways that they crapped up the code.
Extension Room :: URIid: I found this via Joe's post on skinning GMail. Very cool extension. Let's you fix little formatting problems with sites you visit frequently. Well thought-out. The URIid extension makes it possible to create CSS rules based on the site you are visiting. This is…