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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Chrome Extension: Minimum Font

Minimum Font is an extension which I created for Google Chrome (and Chromium, the open-source bit of Chrome) in light of the fact that there is no way to set the minimum font size for Web sites in Chrome. Of course, after making it I discovered that there is a way, but you must edit a configuration file (which some or most users won't want to deal with); there is also an issue filed on the Chromium bug-tracker, for those who are interested in seeing what's being done (Only useful comments, please, and star the issue if you would like to have updates mailed to you or to show your support).

I'm still maintaining the extension, so if you encounter any pages which the extension doesn't work on, or you have a fix for an issue you've encountered, please leave a comment here or on the extension's gallery page and I'll see what I can do to fix it.

Currently, the font size for <body>, <div>, <font>, <span>, <pre>, <p>, <a>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <legend>, <label>, <td>, and <th> tags are checked. Additionally, you may separately choose the size of <small> and <textarea> elements, and enable or disable their minimum setting if you like, as well as disable or enable Minimum Font on individual sub-domains by clicking on the pageaction.

Random notes:

  • The changelog is on the (developer) website.
  • Extensions don't work in the gallery; as such, you'll have to go to another site to see it work.
  • I've set what I think are sane defaults, but it's best to go into the extension's options page and customize the settings to your liking.
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Last.fm "Paint it Blue!" Userstyle

I haven't posted in a while, and I thought I should write something, so here I go... (changes and links at end of post)

A while back (a year or two ago, I guess) I created a Userstyle called "Last.fm - Paint it Blue!" for the Firefox extension, Stylish (see also the link at the end of this post). The style simply changes a few images for ones that I colored blue, and changes some text to better match the blue color. It was a pretty good style (at least in my opinion), but I hadn't been maintaining it for a while and Last.fm had since changed their site design--effectively breaking my style. I have recently resurrected it from the dead, modifying it to again work with the site.

Basically, they changed from using one image per element and a couple images in the header, to one image for many (or all) of the main elements (header, login button, etc.). This helped make the CSS a lot cleaner, but also broke my style in some parts, so I had to scrap a large portion of my code. Luckily, Webkit (a Web browser engine/project), has a very nice page inspector (or simply "Inspector", I believe) which shows the styles applied to an element, as well as all the other elements that style applies to. That allowed me to quickly find all the elements that used the sprite--which I modified to a blue color--and create a single rule which makes all those elements use my modified image instead. And because they had the black and red versions of all the elements in the same image, it allows you to choose one or the other (red or black), and have a different appearance depending on your choice.

Changes:

  • 06/27/08 - Changed color of user/language dropdown menu.
  • 06/30/08 - Fixed #header at blog.last.fm (originally had no background-image).
  • 06/31/08 - Last fix somehow ended up not being applied. It should be fixed now.
  • 08/20/08 - Colored the nav links(Active/current) on the left blue, and the links at the top/right(login/help/language) to white. Suggested by Last.fm user runwithvampires.
  • 08/21/08 - Added comment to allow option of removing globe image left of language selection.
  • 12/01/08 - Removed some header images, as Last.fm removed and resized some of their headers.
    Simplified Scrobble Counter and colored it blue.
  • 12/13/08 - Centered the numbers in the Scrobble Counter a little more; made it more unified. Changed colors to "named colors"(eg: "white") or "rgb"(eg: "rgb(225, 255, 225)")
  • 09/20/09 - Major changes to fit new site design.
    • Old code: http://www.box.net/shared/fq6bqzv3l3 (may be used to create a new style if you wish)

Links:

The Userstyle: Last.fm - Paint it Blue!
Companion Greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32236 (may not be relevant anymore)
Stylish website (Userstyles/Firefox extension): http://userstyles.org/
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Chromium on Linux Coming Along


Chromium is coming along nicely on Linux. Using the chromium-daily PPA the browser is really getting some polish now: GTK theming is almost perfect, with a few minor glitches here and there; The Flash plugin is working well on many sites (there may still be some bugs, though); Developer tools and the task manager are mostly working; most (if not all) font settings are working. Some of the missing/buggy features:
  • The toolstrip isn't complete (it displays when an extension is using it, but that's about it).
  • The top of some of the stock GTK images used in buttons (eg: the stop button) are cut off (minor).
  • HTML5 video element doesn't appear to work yet (on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 using the packages from the PPA). I assume it works if you use the official builds, though. It's working now (Aug 06, '09), but still has some bugs.
  • Chromium's Task Manager doesn't yet show the individual memory usage for tabs sharing a process. (don't know if it does on Windows, but I thought it did)
  • Chromium's Task Manager doesn't show CPU usage for individual processes (they all show the same usage).
  • about:memory isn't working yet.
  • There are some problems with certain window managers (eg: OpenBox's borders controls don't disappear when you switch to Chromium's controls, or don't come back when you switch back to OpenBox's. Not sure whether that's an OpenBox problem or Chromium one, but it happens with other WMs too).
  • There's still one Zombie process (called chromium-browse, for some reason) under the main chromium-browser process. All the other processes appear to go under a separate process for whatever reason.
  • Text (font?) display isn't quite right yet (using DejaVu Serif/DejaVu Sans 13, the dots in password input boxes are irregularly spaced).
  • Language settings aren't visible (or implemented?) yet.
Aside from those and a few other problems, things are looking good! Just remember that if you decide to use the chromium-daily PPA that these are possibly unstable, definitely untested builds, and that there is the possibility of bad stuff happening. If you're looking for a stable browser, you should probably wait until Google releases a stable version of Chrome themselves, or until Chromium is included in your distribution's stable repository. ;)

[This post is now out-dated; many of the issues have been mostly or entirely fixed. Those that aren't, may be soon; the reverse may also be true. Such is the way of bleeding-edge software.]
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