And this is Helvetireader in Mozilla Prism, written Nov 26, 2008, and concerning Web, Usability, Sundry Hacks, and Software

Jon Hicks has just released Helvetireader, a lovely minimalist theme for Google Reader. He's implemented it as a GreaseMonkey script which pulls in the CSS file direct from helvetireader.com, which is a cool touch. He also notes that "the Helvetireader user script is ideal for using with Fluid.app to create a standalone application". It is, of course, also ideal for using with Mozilla Prism for those of us not on a Mac (or those on a Mac who prefer Prism to Fluid). Grab helvetireader.webapp for all the well-styled-Google-Reader-in-its-own-window you'll ever need. (Those of you of a technical bent: all I did was add a webapp.css saying @import url(http://www.helvetireader.com/css/helvetireader.css); to greader.webapp, so you could do that yourself and add any extra customisation you want to that file.)

Comments

jba

Would love see this as stylish theme instead of just greesemonkey.

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Baz

jba: did that - http://userstyles.org/styles/12468

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samrouni

salut s.razki@caramail.com

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Fab

Google Reader in Helvetica? Pure genius! Have to try this... Thanks for the link!

Pepa

Hi,

I can't make it work under Leopard 10.5.7. It works, but without the Helvetireader CSS. Any hints what may be wrong, please? Thank you very much

sil

Pepa: I have no idea what might be wrong; you don't say how you're trying to do it.

kazemizuhi

I clicked on the link for 'helvetireader.webapp' and the download dialog appeared. Downloaded it and windows didn't know what to do with the file.

For some reason the Mozilla Prism dialog box does not appear, Firefox just tries to d/l the file instead. I'd do it myself, but I don't understand or know where to add 'webapp.css' and '@import url...etc'.

Could you provide more lay-man instructions on how to get it done? Furthermore, would it be possible to embed the *.css file into the webapp instead of importing it (incase the website goes down)?

Thanks in advance.

sil

kazemizuhi: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebRunner#Web_Application_Bundles should cover what you need to know.

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