David on 23/1/2010 at 21:23
Maybe you should get a browser that can a) resize px fonts and b) has a cache.
And actually whilst I am at it, the font sizes in vB3 contained a mixture of em, px and pt.
deathshadow on 23/1/2010 at 21:29
Quote Posted by David
Maybe you should get a browser that can a) resize px fonts and b) has a cache.
1) automatically resizing them by the system metric doesn't exist in any browser, kind of the POINT of PX (which should be reserved for use on image interactions). I'm on Opera, I can zoom the page (it does it better than any other browser), thing is I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO especially given what zooming can do to the layout. I'm probably going to end up writing a user.css to 'fix it' myself like I have a few other sites that went from usable to rubbish.
2) What browser doesn't have cache, Maybe whoever wrote this forum skin should bother being qualified to do their job by reading things like the actual specifications and accessibility recommendations like the WCAG?
Sorry, I was a web developer by trade for ten years - I get a little twitchy when I see one of my favorite forums flushed down the crapper by bad code. Whoever wrote this forum skin should be ASHAMED.
David on 23/1/2010 at 21:36
If you don't calm down and stop raging against er... pixel... fonts I will give you a time out and when you come back I'll make sure you see everything in pink 20px comic sans.
If you calm down, I shall change the main fonts to pt.
Deal?
David on 23/1/2010 at 21:40
Searching the forums will bring back a load of nonsense results, be it really old ones or none at all as the indexes are currently being rebuilt and this will take a looooooonnnnggg time.
deathshadow on 23/1/2010 at 21:43
Quote Posted by David
If you don't calm down and stop raging against er... pixel... fonts I will give you a time out and when you come back I'll make sure you see everything in pink 20px comic sans.
If you calm down, I shall change the main fonts to pt.
Deal?
%/EM would be better, you know - follow the WCAG?
I am calm - you should see me when I'm upset. Besides, I fixed it for myself using Opera's USER.CSS
Code:
* {
font-size:100% !important;
line-height:130%! important;
}
body {
font:normal 85%/130% tahoma,calibri,verdana,"geneva",sans-serif !important;
}
Some of the padding goes kinda screwy and it's a laugh at how the page menus are built, but it's at least legible WITHOUT zooming in to the point none of the edit boxes fit my display.
Think it would be possible do do anything about the absurdly bloated markup and hundreds of k of javascript and CSS for nothing?
Nameless Voice on 23/1/2010 at 21:55
Quote Posted by deathshadow
With 17" laptops coming along with 1920x1080 displays and 24" desktop displays at 1920x1200, bumping the font size across all software in the OS and 99% of web pages is damned attractive.
The proper solution is to not mess with the Windows dpi setting, it's buggy anyway. (It seems to have issues with incorrectly scaling only parts of windows in older software, too.)
I have a 14.1" laptop with a 1400x1050 resolution and I have no trouble reading the forums at their default sizes. You need to replace your eyes with better models.
SubJeff on 24/1/2010 at 00:53
Quote Posted by deathshadow
(I used that example because I love laughing at some people's Engrish moist goodry)
Yeah! Screw them! They only know how to speak a language other than English and not pure CSS like you you stud.
:rolleyes:
Nameless Voice on 24/1/2010 at 01:13
A very minor thing, but I thought I'd mention it as it's something David isn't likely to spot as an admin: the forums in the main forum index have alternating colours, except in the Hosted Projects section, where I get two pale blue forums in a row, presumably because there are some hidden forums that I don't have access to between those two forums that I can see.
Yakoob on 24/1/2010 at 01:14
YAY, the dark borders around posts are in!
Awesome job David. Dont worry about the rage, people hate change. Wait a month and no one will even remember what the old forum looked like (and try a new theme change 2 years from now and watch everyone go batshit crazy how you ruined the "old" design they hate so much right now).
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Koobazaur/haters_gonna_hate.gifSubJeff on 24/1/2010 at 01:25
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
A very minor thing, but I thought I'd mention it as it's something David isn't likely to spot as an admin: the forums in the main forum index have alternating colours, except in the Hosted Projects section, where I get two pale blue forums in a row,
But there is only one Hosted Project, isn't there? :confused:
