Stopping colours of webpages IE 6 or greater

[tjbradford]

Hi all,

odd one here , done aload of goggling up on this but only got a partial fix.

I want to open web pages but would like away to stop the page colors from being presented, eg just a white page with black text for example, i have found a Mozilla plug in "

http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/"

this works but we really need it within IE

the reason being that there are a few pages that we have no control over that are almost unreadable in there current colors, sadly we have to use them, anyone know what to suggest that could help us?

 

[flyboytim]

Try this, it seems to work with IE8 on Windows 7, on some pages only:

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/rightlynx/index.php

RightLynx tool


Basically it adds an extension to Internet Explorer (a registry entry), which tells the server at yellowpipe.com to return the page to you in a second IE window as it would look in Lynx, a text-based browser (no images, black uniform text on white background).

On pages that are heavily reliant on javascript, Flash, and with complicated styles you are probably out of luck. You may find an extension which works for IE to display in Firefox, but you say you need it "within IE". I don't know if it works better with older IE versions like IE6. Most of today's webpages do not show well on IE5, and IE7 was widely condemned, possibly by association with Vista.

On hard-to-read pages, I try selecting (highlighting) the text first, which sometimes increases readability, and if that fails, copying the text to notepad is as fast a way as any to see the text as black on white. Saved as a .txt file, the text could be reopened in IE, so it could be scripted to work exactly like that.

Here's a MSDN page that explores that idea:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ExtendedCopyMenu

http://www.fxxxingcomputers.co.uk

 

[Sympology]

Try this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303154

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