Tuesday 9 October 2012

Crappy Blogger

So Ned was pretty upset that when he added a Twitter Gadget to his Blogger blog that the text of his tweets were black. In his other Gadgets, the text is white.

Ned is struggling to like Blogger, he's a Wordpress fan. I've tried to explain that Wordpress loses all it dazzle ( or fudgeability ) as soon as you try to make it work for an institution.

So, after having searched to see if CSS could reach inside an iframe to set the text to white, StackOverflow told me that

  1. You can't do it
  2. You can do it with JavaScript
So, here goes. How easy is it to add JavaScript to Blogger and attach CSS rules to relevant bits. Let's see,