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I'm the developer for XOWA. I'm hoping it's not bad form for me to comment, but I read your article, and really do appreciate the review. I also wanted to provide some additional info, in case you're curious.
Sorry, this was definitely a mistake on my part, and I'll correct it for the next release. I was aiming for simplicity, but I shouldn't have sacrificed correctness.
This may be clumsy, but you can edit the xowa.gfs file to increase the size of the text. Search for the following text "/*body, td {font-size: 16pt;}*/" and remove the "/*" and the "*/". This will change the font size to 16.
I'll make this an option within the app for the next release.
No, sadly, your version works fine. XOWA uses SWT, and I found its basic widgets difficult to customize (its web-browser is fantastic though). I tried to "minimize" them as much as possible, since 90% of the time the user would be looking at the wiki page, and I didn't want to distract them with stock app widgets. However, as you point out, making them near-invisible is quite awkward.
I'll add some basic border/tooltips for either the next release or the one afterwards. I'll also put in real back / forward buttons.
Wow, I'm impressed that you're using the command-line option for it. Regarding printing, I'll put in a link that will pop up the Print box (similar to doing File -> Print).
Again, thanks for the article and the feedback. I will definitely incorporate your points into upcoming releases. If you have any others, let me know!
The README file explicitly says to unzip to /xowa/... (which is) bad advice
Sorry, this was definitely a mistake on my part, and I'll correct it for the next release. I was aiming for simplicity, but I shouldn't have sacrificed correctness.
I found no way to zoom the page text.
This may be clumsy, but you can edit the xowa.gfs file to increase the size of the text. Search for the following text "/*body, td {font-size: 16pt;}*/" and remove the "/*" and the "*/". This will change the font size to 16.
I'll make this an option within the app for the next release.
This may be a general Java issue with my current version of Linux (Fedora 17 x86_64)
No, sadly, your version works fine. XOWA uses SWT, and I found its basic widgets difficult to customize (its web-browser is fantastic though). I tried to "minimize" them as much as possible, since 90% of the time the user would be looking at the wiki page, and I didn't want to distract them with stock app widgets. However, as you point out, making them near-invisible is quite awkward.
I'll add some basic border/tooltips for either the next release or the one afterwards. I'll also put in real back / forward buttons.
the command line!... also usable for printing
Wow, I'm impressed that you're using the command-line option for it. Regarding printing, I'll put in a link that will pop up the Print box (similar to doing File -> Print).
Again, thanks for the article and the feedback. I will definitely incorporate your points into upcoming releases. If you have any others, let me know!
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