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Want “Reader Mode” for almost the entire web - and have every page load nearly instantly? Here’s how.

There are three main constellations of Web Browsers - ones based on Google’s Blink rendering engine (used in Google Chrome, MS Edge, Vivaldi, Brave and others), ones based on WebKit (used in Safari on MacOS & iOS 7 iPadOS) - and on Mozilla’s Geko engine (used by Firefox & Thunderbird).

There are also a few other, “non-mainstream browsers”, that have their own engines. Cosmic wanderers, not part of the main constellations, that chart their own course, building everything themselves: Flow, Servo, LadyBird, NetSurf - and Dillo-Plus.

Dillo Plus has a Tiny Superpower

Actually, the Dillo-Plus browser has quite a few tiny superpowers - but the one I’m interested in is its ability to ignore all the CSS styles from the website and load your CSS …

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cssmin is unmaintained & has a bug with complex :is selectors


Sometimes I want to have a just a tiny bit of CSS that’s unique, just for one page or post. I don’t want a whole stylesheet, or to have to add this to my site-wide theme, just for one post – I want a simple way to add it in the post itself.

This is how I did it:

Continue reading “Custom Per Page CSS With Pelican”

You can use the new CSS :is selector to write complex CSS selectors in a much more compact way