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RE: Feature Request: Disable Images

Michael Hall — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:46:41 GMT

I broke down and made my own toggle:

[url=http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2008/01/15/kill-images-in-netnewswire-via-css-and-applescript/]
Kill Images in NetNewsWire via CSS and Applescript[/url]

There's a pair of before-n-after pics there that might help explain why someone might want images gone now and then.

RE: Feature Request: Disable Images

Michael Hall — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:19:52 GMT

[quote][b]Brent Simmons (10/11/2007)[/b][hr]Is the issue that you don't want to see images or that you don't want to use the bandwidth to download them?[/quote]

I don't want to see images. Most of the time I find they don't really help me understand the text any better, and I like using an RSS reader because I'm getting a much more text-based experience in the first place. For the rare cases where they might serve a purpose, a quick toggling keystroke would be nice to see what I'm missing.

Though it isn't an issue on my Intel iMac, with my G3 iBook there's also a performance issue: Images slow everything down a bit more and make the app seem less responsive. On the iBook, I've already turned off plugins, Javascript and Java. I was really disappointed when I figured out NNW's concept of a plugin did not include the bits that render pictures. My image-free stylesheet is a definite performance aid on the iBook.

RE: Feature Request: Disable Images

Brent Simmons — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:59:58 GMT

Is the issue that you don't want to see images or that you don't want to use the bandwidth to download them?

Feature Request: Disable Images

Michael Hall — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:17:38 GMT

I'd like to be able to toggle the display of images.

Per-feed would be nice (some sites provide useful screenshots and the like, others just use stock photos with no apparent purpose), but a toggle in the preferences (Browsing/News Items/Web Content) would be swell, too.

Ideally, I'd love to see the functionality available as a menu item so I could give it a keystroke. I understand that if we all got what we wanted as menu items there'd be a lot of clutter, so adding the toggle to the AppleScript dictionary would be cool, too: I could write my own hotkey.

I go at the problem obliquely right now: I took the default style and added

.newsItemDescription img {display: none;}

Then saved it as "Default - Image Free"

Since there's no way to get at the stylesheet selector via AppleScript (without delving into UI Scripting), I have to toggle it manually, though, and it seems like an elaborate workaround for a feature that's not uncommon in browsers.