Global Change of White Backgrounds

[beau]

Please tell me if Color That Site can do what I need - I installed it and took a quick look at the tutorial, but it's not at first clear if Color That Site can do this job.

Because white backgrounds give me such a d*** bad case of eyestrain, I have set up Win7 with soft, non-glaring display colors, and in Firefox I uncheck
  • Tools > Options > Color > Allow pages to choose their own colors instead of my selection above

But on surprisingly many web pages, images won't appear with this setting.  I therefore have to frequently go back and forth between checking/unchecking the above-mentioned Tools options to find if I'm seeing everything on a page.

Can Color That Site globally change all white backgrounds to, say, a pale grey (or any other color), without causing any images or other items on pages to not display?

Thanks!!

[Michel Cadorette]

The short answer is YES !

But you have to it on a TLD basis ex: Google.com wikipedia.org  and so on...

I've done it for most site I use everyday, and adding a new one take only 2-5 minutes and after no strain and pain for my eyes.

Regards !

2012/3/15 beau <be...@beaujohnson.com>

[Michael]

Hi beau,
basically Color-That-Site works site by site/domain. So it is not "global".

But like Michel said it normally doesn't take long to add new sites with changed color/brightness. Usually the ones you often visit.

[Beau Johnson]

<<  it normally doesn't take long to add new sites with changed color/brightness. Usually the ones you often visit. >>

okey-doke, if i can get some regular sites toned down that'll help lots
thanks!!
~ beau

[Michel Cadorette]

Maybe an export feature to export all "filters" we have from CTS to share with others users...

Cause some site like Google are most "tricky" to fine tune...  since they have a lot of Sub "TLD"... it can help "newbies" ?


Regards

Michel

2012/3/15 Michael <infor...@gmail.com>

[Tom Teters]

I have the same problem.....white bg's@nite give me a migraine.......so I use the Domain on Settings
and color all my sites a light Grey (?Gray?), I use ~25%, normally,  ~14% on Facebook.
I have a huge list of 'converted'/re-colored site, maybe there should be a general list of the top 300 site?

Think cosmic,
TomT
Ft. Collins, Colorado

P.S. Thanks for all the great effort you are putting towards this applet, Michael!!!
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[Michel Cadorette]

Hi Tom,

Yes it's a good idea to have a list !

I have a lot too... it could help many peoples : )

Have you been able to save all your sites in one shot ?

Regards
Michel

2012/3/15 Tom Teters <To...@starmon.com>

[Michael]

Hi Michel,

Yes an export "All" would be at least an interesting feature. Maybe i would make this possible. The user still has the possibility to import those styles entry by entry. Importing all/many styles at once might be too much for some computers. :-)

I use this occastion to shortly tell some things about import/export and reasons why it is so.

CTS (i mean "Color That Site") currently imports/exports only some kind of "instructions how to change" for each style. This is why the site is opened in the browser when a color edit is imported.

It would be an idea to host such edits somewhere. (Like userstyles.org for the Stylish add-on)
But currently i don't have plans to do that for two reasons:
#1 It's just takes time and work to create and mantain such a site.
#2 Lawers: In Germany there's no such thing like "fair use" in the US. I could basically be sued for every "unauthorized" thumbnail image people post on such a site.

[Michel Cadorette]

2012/3/16 Michael <infor...@gmail.com>

Hi Michel,

Yes an export "All" would be at least an interesting feature. Maybe i would make this possible. The user still has the possibility to import those styles entry by entry.

It's take a lot of time when you have ~100 filters

 

Importing all/many styles at once might be too much for some computers. :-)

Hmmm from what I see (and I have not the latest computers/CPU) it's does not consume a lot of ressource... :) 

I use this occastion to shortly tell some things about import/export and reasons why it is so.

CTS (i mean "Color That Site") currently imports/exports only some kind of "instructions how to change" for each style. This is why the site is opened in the browser when a color edit is imported.

It would be an idea to host such edits somewhere. (Like userstyles.org for the Stylish add-on)

Before I found CTS I was looking for a software to save my eyes, so I've come across Userstyles.org, but the goals of Userstyles.org,is more to have CUSTOM and BEAUTIFULL graphic that are looking good but also are not eyes friendly.

Moreover it consume a lot of bandwidth dld all graphics, so for "professional" use it's not an alternative for me... but YOUR extension IS the savior of my vision :P
 

But currently i don't have plans to do that for two reasons:
#1 It's just takes time and work to create and mantain such a site.
#2 Lawers: In Germany there's no such thing like "fair use" in the US. I could basically be sued for every "unauthorized" thumbnail image people post on such a site.

For the time I understand you 300% and for legal pupose too.

Maybe I have a workaround, I could have on my Cloud (minus.com) a zip file that users can download and copy to the CTS directory on their computer.

You can just add on the description something like "Michel C has provide in own personasl custom CTS settings to help peoples that don't want white backroud... blablabla..." and I'm not affilaited in any way or give support for the zip file but feel free to try it..."

This way there is nothings to maintain, it's just like a bonus a little bit like a Personnal Usersscript for GreaseMonkey that I share with others.

Michel
Canada

[karl Hurst]

hello, i like the concept of this addin, but the reality is painfull is there not a quick way of applying my chosen bg colour easily by remembering my global choice. #ffffcc im looking for a simple tool to  promote to dyslexics who simply need a plug n play change the colour.. this is too complex too fussy and not userfriendly.

[Michel Cadorette]

Hi Karl,

There is no easy way or perfect way to do this.... personally I use CTS for all web site I browse on everyday basis, so for those sites they appears EXACTLY like I like...

But in my quest I've found another way to make global change but for me it does'nt fit my needs... Layout are easy for the eyes but Ugly and hard to decipher for the brain ;-) ( No more color code for charts and others...)


So you can try it, maybe it will fit your needs (I hope), here's how to do:

1- Dld the following extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/stylish/

2- Use this 2 Styles" only that you can enable/disable easily. Copy and Paste in the Style editor of Stylish
e.g.

—
Global Site Color Style – Light BackGround

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix("http:"), url-prefix("https:") {

* :not(img)
{background: Silver !important;}
}
—

Global Site Color Style – Dark Background

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix("http:"), url-prefix("https:") {

* :not(img)
{background: DarkGray !important;}
}
—

N.B. : Maybe this extension is what you are looking for : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/


Regards
Mike

2012/10/19 karl Hurst <ikh...@gmail.com>