Re: [privoxy-devel] sed script to adapt templates to non CSS capable (Amiga) browsers

[Fabian K. <fre...@fa...>]

Martin Steigerwald <Ma...@li...> wrote:

> I am currently writing an Amiga-Magazin (http://www.amiga-magazin.de)=20
> article about Privoxy and found an easy way to adapt the CSS based=20
> templates for Privoxy to be enjoyable on non CSS based browsers.

That's great.

> See for yourself the original templates versus the adapted ones.
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> http://martin-steigerwald.de/privoxy-templates/IBrowse2.4-original-templa=
tes.png
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> http://martin-steigerwald.de/privoxy-templates/IBrowse2.4-adapted-templat=
es.png
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> Basically the adaption is done by running a simple sed script over them

> Here you can find the script:
> http://martin-steigerwald.de/privoxy-templates/
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> I do not propose to change the common templates to work without CSS=20
> browsers... but maybe this simple sed script could be included with a=20
> little documentation on how to use it.

> For now the div's do not seem to be used in the templates and I know once=
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> you use div's except tables for the layout, non CSS capable browsers are=
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> basically out of the game.

That really depends on the markup. The content for Privoxy's CGI
pages is mostly structured linear and I doubt that using semantically
correct HTML would hurt anyone.

Currently the design tables only have one column,
replacing them with divs or paragraphs shouldn't
make a difference.

The tables that have more than one column are
semantically correct and could stay anyway.

> But upto then above sed script adds quite some=20
> convenience for Amiga users. ;-)
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> So what do you think?

The question is how many (Amiga) users would be interested
enough to change the templates and more importantly how would
they know that there are alternative templates (or a script to
create them) available in the first place?

There is:
http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/ijbswa/contrib/
but I have the impression that it's mostly used
write-only and the files seem to be outdated as
well (I didn't try any of them though).

Of course we could add you sed script there,
but I'm not sure if anyone would find it.

Another option would be that you create a web page
with the script and instructions yourself, tell
us the address an we link to it from the FAQ or
the manual.

I would prefer that and I think a "third-party Privoxy
support tools" section somewhere in the documentation
would be a good idea anyway.

Additionally the modified templates could be bundled
with the Amiga packages, but that's a decision J=F6rg has
to make.

Fabian