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td.side > div.smallFonts > img {
  max-width: 45px !important;
  max-height: 45px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  clip: rect(0px,6px,20px,0px);
}
td.side > div.smallFonts:nth-child(1) {
font-size:0;
}
*{
background:none !important;
background-color:#fff !important;
color:#000 !important;
  border-left:none !important;
  border-right:none !important;
  border-top:none !important;
  border-bottom-color:#ccc !important;
  box-shadow:none !important;
}
table.post td.side,
table.post td.post{  
  border-bottom-left-radius:0 !important;
  border-bottom-right-radius:0 !important;
}
td.userlink > a > span{color:#222 !important;}

td.post{
  word-wrap: break-word;
line-height: 1.4;
  font-size:14px;
}

Posted by wertigon
That, and they want on-the-fly JS loading stuff. For instance, I tend to frequent the Level1 forums these days. They have a lot of cool stuff like an auto-updating editor that shows an automatic preview of what your post will look like, entirely JS driven. Not to mention these fancy scroll-down-for-more-content-loading thingie. Or links loading either previews or, in case of sites like Youtube, loads the movie frame.

The most sane thing I ever designed was a PHP mechanism that allowed me to load parts of a website. Basically, each template had a choice to either render in full, or only render the relevant parts. If you clicked the link with a JSON-call, it only loaded the relevant part. If you did not, you reloaded the entire site. This required a slightly ugly quirk for every template to be like this:

if ($minimal) {
  render_content();
  exit;
}

render_header();
render_content();
render_footer();

But otherwise worked like a charm. Of course, a JSON-driven JavaScript loader would have been even better but...

Posted by Kawa
Just FYI, wertigon's silly thing is now in the theme list, along with a marginally less eye-searing variant.