Re: Skinning Gmane's Blog interface

Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez <at> gmail.com> posted
loom.20080712T011341-672 <at> post.gmane.org, excerpted below, on  Sat, 12 Jul
2008 01:14:28 +0000:

> Greg Chapman <greg <at> gregafloat.plus.com> writes:
>> However, the internal styling code:
>> 
>> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> h1.name {
>>   background-image:
> url(http://gmane.org/paint-blog-id.php?group=gmane.discuss);
>> }
>> </style>
>> 
>> on every page rather destroys the point. Could this be moved to the
>> external stylesheet file, or am I missing the point, somehow?
> 
> Your custom stylesheet could override it and make it !important.

... Or do what I do

1) newsgroups as newsgroups, not web pages

2) Privoxy, with a set of filters that enforces my light text on dark 
background preferences (I just remove bg-image references as the replacer 
doesn't know what they are), while maintaining some semblance of color on 
the page as it was sent.  Basically, this means a whole series of filters 
darkening light background colors and lightening dark foreground/text 
colors, but a bright red background is still red, just a darker brick 
red.  I've been working on the filterset for sometime now, and it's 
reasonably good, tho it does screw up occasionally, and does change the 
tint to some degree as well, in some cases where there's an unbalanced 
RGB mix specified, due to necessary imprecision in the filters (16.77 
million colors, not 16.77 million filters!).

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