Mostly Open?

[denny]

I just spent a semi-instructive half-hour prodding the new style system to see how hard it is to make your own custom styles. Semi-instructive because although I managed to help tacohell find and edit the style she wants to base her new style on (Generator), I can't find the source code for the one I want to base my new style on (Component). It looks to me as if whoever created the Component (and Boxer) style has chosen not to share the code for them, even though they're in the Public Layers area - which is recommended as a good source for reference materials in the S2 docs. This seems a bit odd to me...

Update: further investigation shows that these two styles are only available to paid users, and I'm guessing this is the reason that the source is being kept unavailable - to prevent free accounts from copying the whole thing across into a private style and using it. This is kind of sucky... I think I'm going to have to switch to a different style and then do some radical editing to get the results I want, instead of just tweaking this style.

Comments

[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed it's no longer available as an option, the only reason I could think of was that so many people are using it that the server it's on is overloaded and they don't want to increase the load 'til they've cured the problem (mine needs refreshing due to not properly loading quite often). This may be totally wrong and probably is but that's what I decided it must be. Um. I'll shut up now.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Erm. It looks like it's still available to me?

[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

It wasn't when I last went to have a play with my other LJ. That was a couple of nights ago.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It's only available to paid accounts.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Ah, that'll be why DJ doesn't offer Component, then. Darn.