On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:49:27AM EDT, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Jun 02, 2006: [..] > > What you are toggling with '%' is this option: > > document.colors.use_document_colors <num> (default: 2) > > Use colors specified in document: > 0: is use always the default settings > 1: is use document colors if available, except background > 2: is use document colors, including background. This can mostly > look very impressive, but some sites will appear really ugly. > Note, that obviously if the background is not black, it will > break the behaviour of transparency. > I need to read the doc again. Now I remember reading this and it makes more sense now that I have used elinks on a regular basis. Not that the above is unclear.. Just that I had too much on my plate and the penny didn't drop..
> > In mozilla for instance I have access to a palette of ~70 colors that I > > can use to colorize the different text components on a web page - such > > as make unvisited links some shade of blue.. visited links some shade > > of red etc. > > You can change the color of active, unvisited, visited, and bookmarked > links. Also to some limitations, you can color individual elements using > a user-specific .css file. .. and you can actually set hex #rrggbb colors..! I wonder how elinks determines the closest xterm-256 match. I changed the "visited links" default - was yellow in my setup.. very visible on a dark background but practically invisible on a light one. > > > Elinks appears to have a different philosophy. Apart from the "%" > > that lets you switch between three pre-established color schemes I > > didn't find anything in the menus that would let you change colors > > on the fly - when text is not very legible for instance, such as a > > light grey on a white background for instance.. > > I advice you to change the default document colors when using the > 256-color mode. More specifically changing the Text color so that the > default text and background color is both "black" will give you a much > better default contrast. .. was looking in the wrong place. :-( I changed the defaults as you recommend - one was set to grey75 and now I have changed it to black, it makes all the difference. Now very few pages switch automatically from option 2 above (use document colors) to the "reverse video" rendering with a dark background. Thanks much for the tip..! Why do some pages still switch to this rendering? Sometimes elinks actually seems to hesitate .. briefly flashing a black background (I am on an xterm with "-bg black") and eventually comes up with the "document colors".. usually dark text & a light background.. and sometimes it does not. Interestingly some sites are rendered with "islands" of dark-colored text on a light background and the rest of the page is black. In my case, the European Yahoo! sites are rendered correctly while the American ones - US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina.. have are not. No big deal anyway. Looking forward to being able to spend more time tinkering with the program's customization and seriously reading the doc. I've switched 99% to elinks from mozilla and the occasional problem site (javascript mostly..) is really nothing compared with everything I have gained in the bargain.. Heck, I was spending more time waiting for pages to render than actually browsing. Great product..! Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
