Better Text View version history - 25 versions
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Version 15.9.6
Released Sep 28, 2024 - 774.75 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterNew variable '--g_skip_css_colors' which skips hue correction (and contrast) of elements processed in stylesheets. Setting '--g_skip_css_colors' to greater than 10 skips more elements than less than 10, and if greater than 99, skips text contrast.
The '--g_svg_bg_white' now also works for PNG images.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
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Version 15.9.3
Released Sep 27, 2024 - 774.47 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix for speak out loud text-to-speech, which would stop speech after few sentences. Now it might stop in long sentences, but less often.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.9.1
Released Sep 26, 2024 - 773.99 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix if :hover color of element is changed, avoid adding 'important' tag to color change.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.9.0
Released Sep 25, 2024 - 773.74 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterSimplify contrast method.
If text brightness is more than background brightness, make text white, else black.
Some sites will need adjusting of settings.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.8.3
Released Sep 24, 2024 - 774.48 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterChange line height of text with line height smaller than font size to 115%, when "Skip text height" is disabled.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.8.2
Released Sep 24, 2024 - 774.5 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix for reverse colors invert image when a background image has no source link during inversion.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.8.1
Released Sep 24, 2024 - 774.46 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterSetting option '--g_svg_bg_white' to 'dontinvert' will prevent darkening of single color icons in reverse colors.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.8.0
Released Sep 23, 2024 - 774.34 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterMany minor bugfixes.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.7.3
Released Sep 18, 2024 - 774.54 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix for regular expression of valid / invalid input types.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.7.2
Released Sep 17, 2024 - 774.54 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterRemove the background color in zooming, and make text shadow darker.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.9
Released Sep 16, 2024 - 774.56 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterChange logic of input boxes text color contrast to consider brightness of background along with text color.
If text color brightness is more than background color brightness, text is made white, else black.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.8
Released Sep 15, 2024 - 774.49 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix of very old bug with text contrast where background color is calculated wrong.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.7
Released Sep 15, 2024 - 774.47 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterNew variable '--g_smaller_text' which is opposite of 'inverse text increase'. Text size is decreased proportionally to size. So sizes near the threshold get much more small than sizes away from threshold.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.6
Released Sep 13, 2024 - 774.15 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterRemove bug introduced in check of rule with link in stylesheet processing.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.5
Released Sep 12, 2024 - 774.15 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterNew variable '--g_min_image_size' in place of hardcoded value 199 for images less than this size to skip applying 'Invert image' filter in reverse colors.
Bugfix for 'shadow root' elements which had stopped working due changes of loading cross origin stylesheets.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.3
Released Sep 11, 2024 - 773.94 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterRevert to loading of cross origin stylesheets instead of linking to them.
This allows for shadow root nodes to be processed, which, by linking stylesheet, do not work as expected.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.2
Released Sep 11, 2024 - 773.92 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix for cross origin error when processing stylesheet rule having a URL link.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.6.1
Released Sep 11, 2024 - 773.92 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterClean stylesheet processing and hue correction code.
Part of the stylesheet processing is now done by new variable '--g_change_vars' which changes variables of color values. Set this to enabled if some site colors are different.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.5.7
Released Sep 10, 2024 - 774.51 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfix for 'process :before/:after elements' and optimize stylesheet processing for hue correction.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.5.6
Released Sep 9, 2024 - 774.71 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterCode cleanup and fixing 'g_keep_colors' so it does not conflict with regression tests.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.5.0
Released Sep 8, 2024 - 804.94 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterRegression testing fixes for text/border/background colors to keep backward compatibility.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.4.5
Released Sep 8, 2024 - 775.2 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterAdded 'media' tag for loading cross origin stylesheets. The tag ensures that the correct style is applied when '--g_load_crossorigin' is enabled and not styles of, example print media.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.4.4
Released Sep 7, 2024 - 775.11 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and later'--g_keep_colors' now works with text background / border colors and :hover/:selection/:before/:after classes of text.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.4.0
Released Sep 6, 2024 - 775.07 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterRollback changes for border/background/text color for pseudo classes.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 15.3.5
Released Sep 5, 2024 - 775.22 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterBugfixes for border/background/text colors in reverse colors hue correction and colors set for :hover/:selection CSS classes.
Changes may break existing settings.
Experiment with different values of '--g_max_css_rules' and '--g_skip_css' to get views as before.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0