[ Other than the fact that I'm running Firefox on my Debian box, this is not a Linux-specific message, tho it does relate to previous messages posted here. ]
I just wanted to rave about the bookmarklets available at: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ It seems to me that an increasing number of WWW sites are verging on being unreadable because the content that I'm actually interested in has gotten buried in an irritating tangle of "style". Everybody's gotta express themsevles, I guess, but sheesh! "Tasteful restraint"? Sorry, guv - never heard of it... Anyway, I've now (via simple drag'n'drop to the Personal Bookmarks toolbar) added two bookmarklet buttons (one disables Style Sheets and the other zaps a bunch of other stuff) to Firefox and my viewing experience is much improved. The first bookmarklet is usually enough to de-glitz most pages such that they're readable, and the second usually takes care of those that still suck if the first one wasn't enough. Those two bookmarklets come from the "Zapping Annoyances" section of that squarefree site but I encourage you to check out the others, too. I should mention that the sites where those bookmarklets find their best use are typically blogs and news sites, i.e. where you're viewing them because you hope to find readable text passages and such. Those bookmarklets would almost certainly not be applicable with pages oriented around gaming, heavy graphics, etc. And they yield only mixed results if the site is heavily frame-oriented, YMMV And I'll also mention that I don't expect my WWW experience to be ad-free, and it's not the (primary) intent of either of those bookmarklets to zap ads. Grownups understand that somebody's gotta pay the bills, so I can live with ads, as long as they're not totally obnoxious. (I use Firefox's AniDisable, Flashblock and Nuke-Anything extensions to cope with truly obnoxious stuff, but that's another story...) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
