cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Jun 02, 2006:
> I run elinks on a 256-capable xterm.
>
> I have found that you can toggle three color schemes via the % keyboard
> action - this is apparently meant to improve readability for certain web
> pages/sites.
>
> The default color scheme in my setup has a light background and appears
> to do its best to render pages as closely as possible to what the page
> specifies.
>
> If I press % I have access to two more color schemes with a dark
> background. The main difference between these two appears to be that
> one uses only the 8/16 basic colors while the other uses the extended
> color capabilities of the underlying xterm (?)
>
> Are these aspects documented?
What you are toggling with '%' is this option:
document.colors.use_document_colors <num> (default: 2)
Use colors specified in document:
0: is use always the default settings
1: is use document colors if available, except background
2: is use document colors, including background. This can mostly
look very impressive, but some sites will appear really ugly.
Note, that obviously if the background is not black, it will
break the behaviour of transparency.
> In mozilla for instance I have access to a palette of ~70 colors that I
> can use to colorize the different text components on a web page - such
> as make unvisited links some shade of blue.. visited links some shade
> of red etc.
You can change the color of active, unvisited, visited, and bookmarked
links. Also to some limitations, you can color individual elements using
a user-specific .css file.
> Elinks appears to have a different philosophy. Apart from
> the "%" that lets you switch between three pre-established color
> schemes I didn't find anything in the menus that would let you change
> colors on the fly - when text is not very legible for instance, such as
> a light grey on a white background for instance..
I advice you to change the default document colors when using the
256-color mode. More specifically changing the Text color so that
the default text and background color is both "black" will give you
a much better default contrast.
> I am aware of the color.html test page that comes with the package but
> that only confirmed my suspicion that I might not be using all the
> capabilities of Elinks's enhanced color mode.
>
> Apologies for the vagueness of my questions.. Any pointers welcome.
--
Jonas Fonseca
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