Not to bring up an old topic but..
... I was running through the archives and found an interesting entry that could have been written about the Google Auto-Link fiasco. The title was, Who Owns Your Browser? and it is about per-site user style sheets. I had forgotten that Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, myself and many others hashed through a lot of this stuff almost a year and a half before Google's auto-link even hit the street and the issues are pretty much the same.
The discussion came out just as fractured then as it has this time
around with the A-listers. Adrian's friends thought people using
per-site user stylesheets to modify content would be a serious issue and
that content providers would eventually sue, Simon was open to
the idea that there might be some questions around ethics but didn't
want to hurt innovation, and I said screw the content
producers
it's my goddam browser and I'll do whatever I please,
thank you. :)
Maybe next holloween we can dress up like Winer, Scoble, and Doctorow and yell a lot? :)
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