I recently had occasion to set up a Linux - Debian - machine (for work,
to be sure). I'm having trouble finding a Web browser I can stand to
use.
One of the ones I tried was netsurf (via apt-get install, installing
netsurf-common and netsurf-gtk - the About window says "NetSurf 3.10
(24th May 202
On 28 Jul 2022 as I do recall,
Mouse wrote:
> I recently had occasion to set up a Linux - Debian - machine (for work,
> to be sure). I'm having trouble finding a Web browser I can stand to
> use.
>
> One of the ones I tried was netsurf (via apt-get install, installing
> netsurf-common
>> [I tried netsurf]. As I have, unfortunately, come to expect from
>> almost everything, it defaulted to reverse video. [...]
> [default CSS] To be honest I don't know that this would override the
> colours set up in the page [...]
I wouldn't expect default CSS to override the page's colours.
On 28 Jul 2022 as I do recall,
Mouse wrote:
> >> [I tried netsurf]. As I have, unfortunately, come to expect from
> >> almost everything, it defaulted to reverse video. [...]
>
> > [default CSS] To be honest I don't know that this would override the
> > colours set up in the page [.
>> (I wouldn't even _want_ to override the page's colours, except that
>> most pages actively specify reverse-video colours. I don't
>> understand why.)
> So by 'reverse video' you mean DTP-style display, with dark text on a
> white page? Yes, that is the default for everything other than
> termi
>
>
> I'm struggling to post to this list, so hopefully this will work.
>
> Harriet Bazley wrote:
> > Unfortunately I'm pretty sure Netsurf doesn't offer any mechanism to
> > force HTML pages to change their colour scheme. It doesn't offer all
> > that many customisations anyway (you can't even te
[forwarded from Chris Young, as I didn't see the CC'd message turn up on
the list]
-- Begin forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:08:46 +0100
From: Chris Young
To: Harriet Bazley
CC: netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org
Subject: Re: Possible to get it out of rev
>> If the page specifies colours then they will be used by NetSurf -
>> there's no way of overriding them [...]. I'm not sure how you'd
>> even go about implementing this.
Personally? My first reaction is to look at the display code and have
it used fixed colours instead of the colours that come
