Well said, Alan.
Oh, and we all owe you a big vote of thanks for the Nosquint suggestion.
The black text and lighter gray background in posts is better today than yesterday (though it may be because I'm on a different monitor). I still feel like there could be a bit more contrast, and this is coming from someone who used the legacy Star Wars theme to the bitter end.
Also, can you make the new private message indicator a brighter (NOT grey) color? It blends in as is, and is easy to miss since it's at the very top edge now.
..body_wrapper div[style='float: left; width: 700px; height: 270px; margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:10px;'] {
display:none;}
div[style='float: left; width: 700px; height:250px; margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:10px;'] {
display:none;}
div[style="background: url('/images/styles/prometheus/black-30.png'); border:1px solid #333333; border-radius: 10px; float: right; margin-top:5px; margin-right: 2px; padding:10px 12px;width: 300px; height: 250px;"] {
display:none;
}
div[style="background: url('/images/styles/prometheus/black-30.png'); border:1px solid #333333; border-radius: 10px; float: right; margin-top:5px; margin-right: 2px; padding:10px 12px; width:300px; height: 250px;"] {
display:none;
}
It takes literally two rolls of the mouse wheel to scroll to the very bottom of the page. This is another issue I am just not understanding; is it that there are a lot of people using laptops without mice? I couldn't work without one so that's just not me, I guess.
I'm at 25 posts per page but will probably up that to 100 myself when I get around to it.
The thing is: the featured window just isn't necessary.
The whole argument of what's easier to read, light on dark or dark on light, isn't the issue for me. It's how much brightness is being projected at your face over the course of hours and hours in front of a screen.
For me, I have issues with my eyes (when I was five I got blasted in the eyes with red spray paint eroding several layers of my cornea, this leaves me VERY sensitive to computer monitors) so having the bulk of the site be dark means I can have it up all the time whether I'm reading it or not because it's easy on the eyes.
That's actually, I'm realizing, the primary reason I was on here so much (aside from all you great people of course). It's my "default" website because it's always there as my screen dimmer at home. I've been on less the last few days because for the first time I'm actually closing my browser window instead of leaving it up. I'm still sincerely hoping that there will be an inverted style, wouldn't have to be much and it shouldn't take much if anything to maintain, just swap the font colour and the background colour. Presto, light on dark but still the nice grey chrome look you want.
I know it has been said no styles. I can dream though.
The whole argument of what's easier to read, light on dark or dark on light, isn't the issue for me. It's how much brightness is being projected at your face over the course of hours and hours in front of a screen.
For me, I have issues with my eyes (when I was five I got blasted in the eyes with red spray paint eroding several layers of my cornea, this leaves me VERY sensitive to computer monitors) so having the bulk of the site be dark means I can have it up all the time whether I'm reading it or not because it's easy on the eyes.
That's actually, I'm realizing, the primary reason I was on here so much (aside from all you great people of course). It's my "default" website because it's always there as my screen dimmer at home. I've been on less the last few days because for the first time I'm actually closing my browser window instead of leaving it up. I'm still sincerely hoping that there will be an inverted style, wouldn't have to be much and it shouldn't take much if anything to maintain, just swap the font colour and the background colour. Presto, light on dark but still the nice grey chrome look you want.
Er, so what, really? I mean, it's there, so you scroll past it. You have to scroll anyway to read the whole threadlist. This adds maybe a half-millisecond to your mouse roller time per view. Let's extend the argument backwards - we all know where we are, right? So why not get rid of the site banner altogether? Or we could have it in the fixed vertical sidebars, as a tiled image on the background or whatever. That would really open up a lot of usable space for threads.
Which still wouldn't matter, because you'd still have to scroll.