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LWN UpdateLWN UpdatePosted Nov 27, 2002 14:51 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647)In reply to: LWN Update by simon_kitching Parent article: LWN Update
Indeed. There are a lot of folks that would prefer NOT to be logged and potentially
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LWN Update Posted Nov 27, 2002 17:13 UTC (Wed) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link] Use a browser, such as Mozilla, that allows you to override site style-sheets. Check here for information on defining a user-based style-sheet in various browsers, including Mozilla. Note, I haven't actually tried any of these, since I personally use Galeon, which makes it relatively easy to use a custom style-sheet. Now, if somebody would come out with a browser that allowed definition of custom styles on a per-site basis… Not the most convenient option, I know, but until they enable that kind of feature as a site option, that's probably the best you'll get.
Customized site colors -> user-side solutions Posted Nov 27, 2002 18:26 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] > Use a browser, such as Mozilla, that allows you to override site style-sheets.I do, Konqueror, for normal browsing (incl. @ LWN). Unfortunately, that doesn't work to well, because there are to many sites that for instance set the text/fg color w/o setting background color (as is the problem here <g>), and I prefer to let the site override, as in some cases, it adds to the presentation. This is actually a problem big enough to be specifically mentioned in RichInStyle.com 's CSS tutorial (before the reading of which, I thought I was the only one to find this extremely annoying <g>), and I've repeatedly noticed it, even on widely read and professionally designed commercial sites. Site/page designers will set one attribute, often foreground, without setting the complimentary attribute. I use an off-dark-green mid-brightness default background color, browser default, not because I like it all that well, but because it doesn't glare at me like white does, but both black and white stand out well on it, as do various other commonly used foreground/text color choices (nobody chooses this color for foreground, because it's not exactly pretty, but at least I can SEE the text, in most cases <g>). One alternative I used to use on MSWormOS was a personal filtering/rewriting proxy (The Proxomitron), with user creatable/changable filters. Unfortunately, I haven't found a similar utility for Linux that works for me, and that I am comfortable with. (I'm currently learning Perl, my first venture beyond shell scripting in Linux, which I only upgraded to from MSWormOS a year ago, to see what I can do with FilterProxy. The maintainer could use (and has asked for) help, as last time I checked, the available newest version used an outdated Perl module and wouldn't function correctly with the newer version of that module. Working with him on that is likely to be my first volunteer development project in Linux. I was a hobbiest programmer using Visual Basic in MSWormOS, and one of the reasons I switched was in ordered to be able to continue my development under the software libre environment I have become far more comfortable with. There's a similar project using Java, and others.)
LWN Update Posted Nov 27, 2002 17:19 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] "why can't I customize comment background color?"Nobody's asked for it. It won't be a hard feature to add, I'll put it onto the list.
Customized site colors -> Thanks! Posted Nov 27, 2002 17:26 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] Thanks!Tried to post with just the title and a (n/t) note, but it wouldn't go. Then added the single word Thanks! and it still wouldn't go. Maybe it will, now? <g>
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