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Skin 30 Boxes Remotely!February 16th, 2006 by Narendra |
Unhappy with the three themes we have provided for 30B? Take matters into your own hands!
We just put out instructions for the brave hackers who want to make use of your super cool remote skinning architecture. You can build your own theme and host it remotely (on a web server or on your own computer).
Have fun and proceed at your own risk!
30 Boxes!
February 17th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Wow, I like that Flickr theme!
February 19th, 2006 at 12:34 am
You guys do a wonderful job! Keep the great work!
February 19th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
I have no idea what the security ramifications are of this but it’d be great if I could add/modify javascript in the application as well as CSS. There’s some niggly things that bug me that I know I could modify myself.
February 20th, 2006 at 2:15 am
@shmuel that’s what greasemonkey is for!!!! use it, love it!!
(also, I’ve heard that there’s something available for IE that’s similar… dunno, though)
February 20th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Jewett: It’s called trixie
February 20th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
@Dusty do you know of a similar option for Safari? Unfortunately I don’t. I just thought it’d be nice if it was built into the skins api. I mean it would obviously be easy as it would be the same thing that’s happening with the CSS.
February 20th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
On another note I think this solution for avatars is absolutely brilliant! I’ve seen other solutions for global avatars (see Gravatar) but they’ve always seemed a bit clumsy to me. But using the favicon - that’s pure brilliance! It’s distributed, nearly ubiquitous, and a de-facto standard already.
I see that you’re running Wordpress - is this a publicly available plugin? Does anyone know of a similar plugin for MovableType?
February 20th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
I am glad you like it! I wrote a plugin to make it work for our blog and I hope to have an alpha for a generic wordpress. We want 30 Boxes to become the standard for people getting your distributed persona!
The api (Nick is working on it right now) makes requesting this data a snap so maybe we can have this roll through all the blog software :-)