I don't know enough about Javascript to know whether the following is possible. But something like
<html><body> <table width=520 align=center><tr><td> (Some Javascript to "include" the webpage you want to read.) </td></tr></table> </body></html> where "include" does not mean the text of the webpage word for word but a URL that points to it. In jsoftware.com/papers, the <table width=520>...</table> construct encloses all manner of stuff, including further <table>'s, and it mostly conforms to the specified width. But it fails for example in the case <pre>blah</pre> (pre-formatted or literal text) with "blah" being wider than the specified width. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]>wrote: > Roger, > > I appreciate you acknowledging the reality of my issue. > > The "papers" articles are typical of articles that that would be nice to > alter. Your idea of playing with the table width via javascript is quite > innovative. I wonder how difficult that would be to do and how common is > the approach. > > Wait... > It turns out that I misread your comments at first. You in fact were > suggesting that other web pages could be easily changed also. I thought you > meant to change webpage that *are* so written. I don't know if I could even > progammatically change ones that *are* so written. > > Anyhow, there is considerable insight in your post. > > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I don't have an answer, but I sympathize with the problem. I find that > the > > better websites (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post) do read quite well > > on my Galaxy Tab 2 (7 inch, vertical format). > > > > Recently I discovered to my pleasure that > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papersalso read quite well on my Tab. For > > example, > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm . That URL itself with the > table > > of contents frame on the left, isn't so great. But most xxx.htm on the > > website have a corresponding xxx1.htm or xxxa.htm frame, and those pages > > (e.g. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL1.htm) read very well on the > Tab. > > On the website, the width of the lines on each "paper" is controlled by > > > > <table width=520 align=center><tr><td> > > blah blah blah de blah > > </td></tr></table> > > > > Perhaps you can write a Javascript thing that accomplishes the same thing > > for web pages that are not so written. > > > > > > > > > -- > (B=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
