I'm using LJ's shiny new S2 style system, which will at some point take over from the old one. S2 controls the comments and reply pages as well as the main journal pages.
It's also a full programming language rather than a set of ad-hoc rules for pasting together pieces of HTML, which means that the incredibly fiddly HTML hackery I described in a recent entry is no longer necessary - my S2 code can generate the appearance I want in an entirely sane manner without having to resort to weird comment trickery.
I'm not sure whether S2 is available to everybody or just to paid/permanent accounts; in either case the URL you have to use to enable it isn't made conveniently available because it's currently still being tested. Even if you can enable S2 on your journal, though, I imagine that as a free user you won't be able to choose from anything except the standard styles - and frankly, the comments pages on the standard styles are butt-ugly. I had to redesign this one extensively before I was anywhere near happy with it; it started off looking more like this. What do you think? :-)
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BTW, how do you get your comments pages looking like this?
It's also a full programming language rather than a set of ad-hoc rules for pasting together pieces of HTML, which means that the incredibly fiddly HTML hackery I described in a recent entry is no longer necessary - my S2 code can generate the appearance I want in an entirely sane manner without having to resort to weird comment trickery.
I'm not sure whether S2 is available to everybody or just to paid/permanent accounts; in either case the URL you have to use to enable it isn't made conveniently available because it's currently still being tested. Even if you can enable S2 on your journal, though, I imagine that as a free user you won't be able to choose from anything except the standard styles - and frankly, the comments pages on the standard styles are butt-ugly. I had to redesign this one extensively before I was anywhere near happy with it; it started off looking more like this. What do you think? :-)