CSS overwrite statements in .yaml file

[stroobandt]

This is an idea that originates from the surf browser. Suckless.org's surf is a small WebKit2/GTK+ based browser that I used to use quite often before encountering this great WebEngine/PyQt5 ADMBrowser.

surf allows to write a couple of CSS statements that will overwrite some of the CSS of a known web site. This results to be a handy way to eleminate ads and other annoyances or rather to emphasise parts of a web page one is interested in.

Here is an actual example for some of the named CSS classes of the domain rtl.fr:

.ads, .legal-notice, .newsletter, .produit {display: none !important;}
.hResultPrincipal {font-size: 175% !important;}

CSS overwrite statements would be a great and natural addition to ADMBrowser's .yaml site-dependent configuration files. It would also solve the issue of ADMBrowser users currently being exposed to ads that could be perceived as offensive in an educational or public library setting.

[alandmoore]

Seems like a reasonable feature to have. Would it be better to have it keyed on some kind of URL regex matched against the primary URL?

[stroobandt]

Seems like a reasonable feature to have. Would it be better to have it keyed on some kind of URL regex matched against the primary URL?

I would already be very happy when CSS overwriting worked on a URL domain level, but URL regex matching would certainly be a nice refinement, provided it does not complicate matters too much.

Personally, I usually remain on the same domain as the start_url as defined in the .yaml, but I certainly recognise the use cases where URL matching becomes important. That would be when the start_url refers to a search or index page.