on Thu, Aug 15, 2002, John W. M. Stevens (john@betelgeuse.us) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:10:13AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > My very strong preference here is to disable most <font> antics with a
> > user CSS.
>
> Why this, instead of simply using Mozilla's GUI?
Because CSS offers far, far, far finer control. And it's the Right Tool
For The Job.
> > For Galeon and Mozilla, this is userContent.css in the application's
> > config directory (.galeon or .mozilla, appropriate subdirectory).
> >
> > For more infomration:
> >
> > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS
<...>
> Assuming, of course, you think that the average user can figure out
> CSS and write their own "user CSS" file.
If you'd followed the links, you'd find that I've preempted this concern
by doing same. There's a ready-to-roll CSS file at the link above.
You've clearly neither read the article nor looked at the CSS file,
however.
> In the very first MacIntosh web browser I ever used, a user could
> set their preferences via a reasonably simple set of GUI controls.
Of the following?
- Global body text styles (serif, non-serif, and monospace).
- Global body line heights (sad that this need be corrected, but it
does on some sites).
- Header (H[1-2]) styles.
- Link apperance -- in normal, visited, hover, and click modes.
- <PRE> and related tag presentation.
- Textarea presentation.
- Viewsource presentation.
- Nuking of embedded objects.
- Selective nuking of popular advertising banner/box displays.
...all of which I configure.
> So I guess the question before us is: is there a graphical configuration
> tool that you know of that creates CSS files?
While it's possible that a GUI tool could provide interfaces to do some
or much of this, the selection of components is sufficiently complicated
that this would be a very complex tool. So I've offered a
preconfigured, heavily commented stylesheet, and accompanying article
describing its use.
> Or at the very least, is there a free, web available "how to CSS"
> guide that you know of?
If you're not going to read an article and stylesheet linked to, why
should I post additional links to articles on "how to CSS" (which in
part the linked article is, because I found the existing docs sorely
lacking), for you not to read, when I've already done so in the article
you haven't read?
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
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