Fix broken pages (eg: beta-groups) with greasemonkey or related css/XPI?

I haven't learned css partly because it looks as if regular tags are
more efficient for a single web page. However here and there
greasemonkey and other info suggest applying css could be very useful
to fix defective web pages. Space-wasting feed or blog pages.

Prime example: broke-google-groups.com (preemie beta)
Google hasn't yet managed to create page titles from search phrase or
from message/post subject line, as in the real google.groups. if you
edit the search phrase on the results page, broke.google loses the
"sort by date" setting!

I'm not sure if any css or css tool can fix these problems.
Creating a title suggests the xpi or css has to "suck" the search
phrase out of somewhere in the page.
"sort by date" seems to require a conditional (condition: was the
current page status "Sorted by Date" or "Sorted by relevance"?)

Has anyone tried fixing pages with Greasemonkey and/or Aardvark or
Platypus or other??? Proxomitron?

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "SpamCan" <Spammbucket (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
writing in news:1117593950.221054.163740 (AT) z14g2000cwz (DOT) googlegroups.com:

I haven't learned css partly because it looks as if regular tags are
more efficient for a single web page. However here and there
greasemonkey and other info suggest applying css could be very useful
to fix defective web pages. Space-wasting feed or blog pages.

I don't think you understand CSS at all. CSS does not have any tags, as a
matter of fact, tags are the opening and closing delimiters for HTML
elements.

If you remove all presentational markup from a document, and you can still
read it, then start styling it with CSS. Use an external stylesheet.
Almost any element can be styled.

Prime example: broke-google-groups.com (preemie beta)
Google hasn't yet managed to create page titles from search phrase or
from message/post subject line, as in the real google.groups. if you
edit the search phrase on the results page, broke.google loses the
"sort by date" setting!

I'm not sure if any css or css tool can fix these problems.
Creating a title suggests the xpi or css has to "suck" the search
phrase out of somewhere in the page.
"sort by date" seems to require a conditional (condition: was the
current page status "Sorted by Date" or "Sorted by relevance"?)

Has anyone tried fixing pages with Greasemonkey and/or Aardvark or
Platypus or other??? Proxomitron?

CSS would not fix any of these issues. These are server side issues.


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