ZylonBane on 26/6/2004 at 16:20
Anyone else find that hyperlinks in messages are almost indistinguishable from regular text? Especially when a message falls on the blue-grey background?
It would be nice to get back constant underlines on in-message hyperlinks.
Daxim on 26/6/2004 at 17:58
Good luck trying to get this acknowledged, because, as it stands, this, too, is a personal preference of MsLedd. However, you can add
Code:
#ttlgforum a {text-decoration: underline !important;}
to your user.css.
Gingerbread Man on 26/6/2004 at 21:05
SOME1 PLZ HELP ME TEH INTERNET IS 2 HARD
WHERE CAN I DL A TRAINER???? LOL
MsLedd on 26/6/2004 at 21:47
Quote Posted by Daxim
Good luck trying to get this acknowledged, because, as it stands, this, too, is a personal preference of MsLedd.
:laff:
Daxim honey, your obsession with me is getting a bit extreme. I know you think that I exist here soley to irritate you, and well...
(sigh)
OKAY I ADMIT IT!! I know that if you don't have a constant stream of things to bitch about you'll... implode. I was only trying to make you happy darling, it's because I LOVE YOU my little sauerkraut! It's fate. It's destiny. We were made for each other... don't you see?!? MARRIE ME DAX!!@@!
Amorpheus on 26/6/2004 at 22:39
No problem here..
mopgoblin on 26/6/2004 at 22:55
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Anyone else find that hyperlinks in messages are almost indistinguishable from regular text?
Well, I find links I've already visited to be pretty difficult to spot. The non-visited ones stand out well enough though. There's all sorts of user stylesheet trickery that would make links stand out more, but this forum makes it rather difficult to set up rules that only affect links within posts.
Also, why are the admins so reluctant to help anyone with/make changes to the HTML/CSS of forum pages? All such requests seem to go ignored, or attacked with things like "SOME1 PLZ HELP ME TEH INTERNET IS 2 HARD". Why does the title of this forum start with "Help and info desk" if you're not going to help or inform anyone?
MsLedd on 26/6/2004 at 23:35
The problem with changing the forum's CSS/HTML codes is that if we do that to help fix a problem for one person, we end up causing new problems for 500 others. We're not reluctant to help, or ignoring anyone. Plus, in this case (before he blamed the problems of the universe on me) Daxim offered a very viable solution to ZylonBane's problem.
One of the things we've discussed doing is making a set of user-selectable forum styles with differering font sizes and other settings. We haven't had a chance to do this yet, there are a TON of settings to go through.
(BTW, I'm pretty sure GBM's reply was more in reaction to Daxim's post than the original thread) ;)
Gingerbread Man on 27/6/2004 at 00:36
It's all in the delivery.
I find it slightly annoying to try to spot visited links in posts as well. I'm just not a whiny little bitch when I bring the matter up. Daxim, on the other hand, tends to be.
mopgoblin on 27/6/2004 at 01:08
True. I wasn't just talking about this case though - there are a few things that could/should be changed that wouldn't cause new problems for anyone. Like replacing that blockquote that holds the [Support TTLG]/[Buy TTLGear]/[TTLG Photo Album] buttons with something more meaningful* (perhaps a div with an id, although I'm not an expert on this), which I think has been mentioned before. The chances of breaking anything by improving the semantics of the code are pretty low, and in the end it results in more flexible pages - if a user stylesheet had as much control over the appearance of the page as the HTML and the linked stylesheet, there'd be much less need for built-in user-selectable styles (although they'd become easier to make too, becoming a simple matter of creating a different stylesheet and linking that). There are probably people skilled at this stuff who'd be willing to help if none of the admins have the time, too.
*currently I use the rule <i>#ttlgforum blockquote > a > img { content: "[" attr(alt) ]";}</i> to change the appearance of those buttons to something I prefer. Being able to use something like <i>#ttlgforum #topbuttons img {...}</i> would make it a lot more precise and less likely to affect other things. I have a more severe problem with the new FAQ thread links, which I can't figure out how to select without affecting a <em>lot</em> of other links as well.
ZylonBane on 27/6/2004 at 02:24
My understanding of CSS beyond the most basic level is hazy, but wouldn't it be possible to assign a unique class to message blocks, then specify hyperlinks as being underlined in that class only?
