dotcss

May 30, 2013 · View on GitHub

dotcss is two(2) things:

A tiny web server that runs on your machine, serving CSS files out of ~/.css
A Chrome extension that fetches these CSS files and injects them based on their filename.

The files are requested on a per-page basics, based on the hostname. For example, if you go to https://github.com, ~/.css/github.com.css would be injected into the page.

This makes it super simple and easy to change and improve the look of your favorite sites.

How it works

Chrome extensions can't access the filesystem, so dotcss runs a tiny web server on port 1243 that serves files out of the ~/.css folder.

Requirements

OS X or Linux
Ruby 1.8 or newer
rake (gem install rake)
Chrome or Chromium
/usr/local/bin in your $PATH
on Linux: exo-open (Can be found in exo-utils on Ubuntu. Required until Bug #378783 in xdg-utils is fixed.)

Installation

Ensure you have stewart's dotcss installed and running
Install the extension

Thanks

Chris Wanstrath for dotjs, which 90% of this is based on.
Will Farrington for dotjs.safariextension, which another 90% of this is based on.