Dear All,
Here are two, vaguely unrelated, questions that I am earnestly and eagerly searching for answers for:
- In Firebird Mozilla, how would I go about writing a bit of JavaScript (to be put in my user.js file) that would, every time I load an HTML page, set an attribute "_domain" on the root node of the DOM tree; the domain value would just be the hostname from the page's URL. I want this so I can write my own little stylesheet do-dads (in my chrome/userContent.css) that would target some sites that I commonly visit and that I really want to alter my personal view of -- notably making them a bit easier on my poor-excuse-for-eyes by forcing a particular text size and text colors, etc etc. (I know there's features for forcing ALL text on ALL web sites to be a particular size and color, but that's disastrous in most cases.)
- I'd really like to learn how to write Firebird extensions -- I have some decent i18n/interface ideas I'd like to try out, and I think people would find them useful. But I simply can't find a page that describes the process of writing and binding a bunch of JS functions, and making a dist out of them.
I would simply ask a Firebird developer these things, but I don't know any who aren't so maddeningly overworked at smashing bugs that they could ever answer email from a random unknown person asking for help. Does anyone here know anyone who could lend me a hand and answer my occasional questions about these sorts of things? I've written
a bit of Perl software in my day, and I expect that I can pull off some interesting stuff in Firebird.
Web Site makes this easier
Dom2 on 2003-09-27T15:00:42
It might be worth contacting the webmasters of the site in questions. There's a technique I saw doing the rounds a while ago that involves putting an attribute
id="www-mysite-com" on the <html> element. It's a small and generally non-intrusive change. It does, however, let you key CSS selectors off of it, for example:
#www-mysite-com p { font-size: 120%; }
You can see an example of this at http://www.mezzoblue.com/.
aha, got some references:
-Dom
