[WebPositive] Add plaintext mode

[bitigchi]

Web has gotten bloated a lot. Nearly every mainstream page is a CSS and Javascript nightmare. Personally I'd very welcome a feature for stripping every fancy thing in a web page, but still keep the general page layout intact.

Target:

• Change every font to a standard monospace font (or standard serif for that matter)
• Strip custom backgrounds and colours
• Disable JavaScript
• Disable CSS
• Provide a dark and light environment

I am not sure if this is 100% doable, but it would be very welcome nonetheless.

[madmax]

For that use case, wouldn't you install links or w3m instead?

[bitigchi]

AFAIK, links or w3m do not preserve page layout.

[nephele]

If you remoe css, disable javascript and then ignore the colors of the page.

How is it different to the reader mode?

[pulkomandy]

"Reader mode" is how this is called in other browsers, I think?

Your description doesn't really work because"disable css" and "keep the general page layout intact" are conflicting. And that's assuming it's even possible to access the page content without javascript (it workson some pages, but not all)

I think "reader mode" in other browser is not that trivial, but we could start with this.

[nephele]

Reader mode is the preceding ticket: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16509 Which is why i asked how this differs.

Indeed, disabling css would change the layout usually, which is exactly the reason why links2 does not preserve the page layout, because it does not implement css. (or not enough of it)