Making OTN documents more readible

There is a lot of good information on OTN; but I like a certain subset of other people find the color scheme hard to read. For example I find the this page by Steve really hard to read because of the large amount of bold text:

To me I can only focus on the bold text and the rest just kind of swims around. This might be because I might be slightly dyslexic, never confirmed, or just my eyes are tired this week. Either way it means I have to print everything on OTN in order to be able to read it.

The author of this page suggested I hack the .css using firebug; but I wanted a more automatic option so after discarding GreaseMonkey and being too much hassle for this work I settled on a addon called Stylish. This simply allows you to override .css settings for particular websites. Once installed, and restarted, you invoke it from the icon that gets installed at the bottom left of Firefox window:

You can then play with the .css to you hearts content using the style editor dialog:

The style I am using removes a lot of the bold text and gives me a nice yellow background color this I find easier to read on. I would be interested to see what other people choose, I know there have been some moans about the new red/black color scheme on dev.java.net.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("www.oracle.com") {


.boldbodycopy {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: normal !important; color: #000000 ; text-decoration: none; }

.boldbodycopy2 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: normal !important; color: #999999 ; text-decoration: none; }

.boldbodycopy3 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: normal !important; color: #666666 ; text-decoration: none; }

html, body {
  background: none !important;
  background: #ffffcc !important;
}

}

It seems that you have to use the "!important" modifier in order for the changes to really work. Here is what the text in the original document looks like after these changes: