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Re: Distribution of user skills

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, me too.  Some pages manage to circumvent that.  Figuring out why
>> is too tedious to pursue.
> 
> I think (but have not gone out of my way to double check) that CSS
> relative percentage font sizes still adjust even with that turned on. 
> So if a site asks for:
> 
>   body { font-size: 60%; }
> 
> it will get a body size 60% smaller than the base size we pick inside
> that dialog box.

Ah, CSS supervenes.  Not verified but makes sense. NN 4.76 ignores CSS
so I'm used to seeing pages un-jiggered thereby.

> Those are wheree "Control Plus" works well.

A plug-in/add-on for FF?

>> Some pages are even sending font data inline with the HTML markup. 
>> How does that work?  Huh.
> 
> It is a newer feature to allow websites to send the font gliphs to the
> browser for display.  It is a direct result of all the "designers" from
> the paper publishing world cry-babying about how they can't guarantee
> that what you see in your browser is exactly, to the pixel, what they
> deemed you should see.  I.e., they can't handle the loss of absolute
> control they have with paper layouts, and the html spec, the css spec,
> and the browser makers accomodated them (instead of telling them to go
> f*** off and get over themselves).

How do I arrange that my user-space browser will proxy all my requests
through a localhost utility that will (a) detect incoming responses
that are HTML and (b) edit a response according to rules that I can
specify?

I do this for a couple of specific sites that I visit often. Browser
sends request to Apache on localhost; Apache runs cgi-bin script to
send URL data, fetch (possibly unpacking chunked replies), edit and
return results to browser.  I haven't figured out how to generalize
this.

One annoyance that this would reduce is that, even with js and images
disabled, an even slightly modern browser acts on IMG, LINK or META
tags to fetch ancilliary js and other image files that are
subsequently unused.  PITA on dialup, sometimes increasing usless data
bulk by a factor of 10.

>>> Which forces "my" font at "my" size on to the website.
>> 
>> Same, usually but not always.  Doesn't fully exculpate the offending
>> site. 
> 
> True.  But you do know a new fix now.

Indeed, TYVM.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Distribution of user skills RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-12-06 07:00 -0500
  Re: Distribution of user skills Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-12-06 12:44 +0000
    Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-06 12:52 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-06 10:04 -0500
      Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-06 18:39 -0400
      Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:35 +0000
  Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-06 18:23 -0400
    Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-06 22:26 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-06 22:46 +0000
        Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 03:06 -0400
          Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:00 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-12-07 15:52 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-07 11:57 -0500
            Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 14:01 -0400
              Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-07 14:53 -0500
            Re: Distribution of user skills Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-07 23:36 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 21:13 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-08 12:12 +0000
              Re: Distribution of user skills Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-12-08 12:16 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 02:53 -0400
        Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:05 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 16:12 -0400
            Re: Distribution of user skills Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-12-07 21:20 +0000
              Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-08 15:02 -0400
            Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 23:31 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2016-12-08 10:42 +0100
              Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-08 15:27 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-08 21:00 +0000
                Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-09 03:22 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-09 09:53 +0000
                Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-10 04:00 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-10 22:34 -0500
  Re: Distribution of user skills Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-07 12:52 +1100
    Re: Distribution of user skills "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 08:26 +0100
      Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:40 +0000
        Re: Distribution of user skills Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-12-07 20:32 +0000

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