Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-29 Thread Vince M Hudd
Gavin Wraith wrote: > In message > Vince M Hudd wrote: [blocking domains via the host file] > > If you can do something similar in your router, you will achieve the > >

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-28 Thread Vince M Hudd
Gavin Wraith wrote: > I would also like to be able to discriminate content by source URL and to > give permissions for which should be blocked or which allowed through. At the domain level, you could add entries to your hosts file for sources you want blocked, along the

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-27 Thread Jim Nagel
Stuart Winsor (aka "lists") wrote on 26 Jan: > Fresco ... display menu had the following > options, which could be ticked or not as required > Document colours (could turn off background colours to make content visible) ... > Controls (Buttons, URL bar, Status) Yes. I have always

Filtering webpages

2016-01-26 Thread Gavin Wraith
It is some years ago that Fred Graute added scriptability to StrongED, using the 'apply' icon. It enables one to alter what is displayed in a StrongED window by dragging a script to that icon. There are often occasions when one would like to massage webpages displayed in a browser. At present one

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-26 Thread Richard Torrens (lists)
In article , Gavin Wraith wrote: > So many web pages these days are crammed with stuff put in by > advertisers or third parties which upset the viewing experience, > or which NetSurf is unable to render properly. The individual > user

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-26 Thread Gavin Wraith
In message <55480e2bfeli...@torrens.org.uk> "Richard Torrens (lists)" wrote: >NS has choices: >Hide advertisements >Disable pop-up windows >Disable JavaScript > >These, I would guess, tell it to ignore such content. It is then filtering >exactly as you seem to

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-26 Thread lists
In article <4ee4134855.ga...@wra1th.plus.com>, Gavin Wraith wrote: > I seem to remember using a browser on an Acorn machine, many years ago, > that gave you the option of not displaying images unless you > specifically clicked on the icon that the browser used to