I still think the easiest solution here is for users that care to view the
json directly(a couple mentioned above for a few browsers, they are
available for pretty much everything), and let a browser extension format
it.  Then everyone gets what they want and we all win.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Betacommand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would define cruft as the current format, not the classic plain text
> format. The current JSONFM format causes chromostereopsis by mixing the
> blue/red/green format that it is currently using. Creating apioutput.css
> isnt a solution, its ignoring the actual issue. This reminds me of the
> Visual editor debacle where the devs decided to say screw you to the
> community. Depending on an individual's color spectrum, and rendering this
> current output is horrendously hard to read. Providing a non-colorcoded
> output is logical, and far easier than creating the fucked up barely
> readable output that is the current version.
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Betacommand <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> can we get something like jsontxt added where we can get the
>>> un-prettifed version?
>>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess we could make format=jsonfm and format=jsonfm2 or something like
>>> that, where jsonfm2 is non-color-coded.
>>>
>>
>> No, we're not going to add cruft like "format=jsontxt" or
>> "format=jsonfm2".
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can't. The pretty one is so humans can read it better.
>>>
>>> Or maybe you can disable CSS.
>>>
>>
>> This. Specifically, in [[Special:MyPage/apioutput.css]]:
>>
>> .source-javascript * {
>>     color: black !important;}
>>
>> Or you could do something more targeted at GeSHi's output to recolor the
>> various pieces to colors you like better.
>>
>>
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>> Software Engineer
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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