Going forward, we'll probably be tweaking things a bit more as we move to the just-released Geeklog 1.5 -- hopefully including a CSS-based theme that eliminates (or greatly reduces, at least) the use of the <table> tag in the current theme.
-rob.
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Those of you who visit here as guests, or who have the "Hints1" theme selected in your preferences, have probably noticed that we've got a slightly revised appearance as of, oh, about five minutes ago. New logo, new story title colors and topic icons and text, and some links to other Macworld sites in the header are the most visible aspects of the changes we've made.
Going forward, we'll probably be tweaking things a bit more as we move to the just-released Geeklog 1.5 -- hopefully including a CSS-based theme that eliminates (or greatly reduces, at least) the use of the <table> tag in the current theme. -rob.
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With 'hints1' theme, there is no welcome message, so the "To see your posting history, click your user name in the above 'Welcome' message" message in prefs hard to obey...
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I'll work on getting that back, somewhere :).
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As a bit of a hack, I've modified the box text to tell you where the link is -- it's in the User Control Panel box, in the Show My History link. We removed the "welcome" line to save space in the header area.
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FWIW, I like it a great deal. It feels much crisper, sharper, cleaner, brighter.
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The new theme looks great!
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Didn't realize the background color was not white until now.
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The header is somewhat intrusive. It should go on the bottom or the side in my opinion. The Mac OS X Hints logo is a little tall for the white bar to the right of it, or is it supposed to be that way?
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What white bar? Can you either email me a screenshot (robg at the domain you might guess), or post it somewhere so I can see?
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I know what you mean now -- that's a cache issue with your browser; reload it, and the header will be much less intrusive (and look right :) ), and the white bar will vanish.
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Oh. Thank you. It is much better now.
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While I agree about the new look being overall better using white as a background color is too intense. I never even noticed it wasn't white before so if anything I'd move back to that background color since my eyes are already beginning to feel strained looking at the new white background.
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I agree now that I look at it. The gray at the very top would be a good background color I think. The white particularly makes the blue links on the side harder to read.
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I don't like it. The Classic theme is my preferred selection. Too bad it only pops up if I log in.
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The only thing I would change is to create a little more definition between the main content and the sidebar information.
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This reminds me of Win. Vista - just joking, but i like the old theme better.
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Please just fix RSS so it shows the whole posting!
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Nice!
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Much improved over old design - some little notes you might take into consideration:
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And also - like the new icons much.
To those who say the white background is too intense - I disagree, but create a bookmark of this:
javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20#e3e3e3%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();
(drag link here into your menu bar) Change Style
and click it when you get to a part of any website whose background you find to white (it will also change a dark-light scheme too) including MOSXHints to a greyish color.
(you can change color by replacing #e3e3e3 in the script with anything...
Script modified version of one by Robert, commenter at 456bereastreet.
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Reply didn't go to right place - so...
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I like the new icons, or at least the ones that have been updated. It feels almost like using a new version of Mac OS X with them, as often as I visit this site.
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Hi,
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Love the new theme. It's like going from OS 9 to Leopard on the eyes :P
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I hate the new theme and stick to the the old (very blue) one. However, because the site expires my automatic login every so often, I get the default theme and have to click the login button again. I don't like that, so if you could hint your way to fixing it I'd be very happy. ;-)
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Link doesn't work... sorry.
MR is removing the "javascript:" part of it - so you will have to create a bm and copy and paste the javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20#e3e3e3%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();
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I've been a daily visitor to the site for years, and a very grateful one. I registered and logged in today for the first time just to be able to use the elegant and clear Classic theme. Thank you for leaving 'Classic' available. The new theme, IMO, would be more suitable for a site trying to sell me something on the cheap, and that something looks suspiciously like something "X-rated". Sorry!
Andreas
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Where is the choice to view comments as nested or flat or ? I have it set up in my account, but I cannot see the menu any more.
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It's in the usual place but may not be on your screen because horizontal scrolling has been triggered. Stay near the top and scroll to the right.
Andreas
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Ah thank you.
Enable/disable 'wrap'?
robg would need to answer that as I don't know anything about Geeklog. AFAIK we users can't disable it once a previous post has caused it with a long line containing no spaces or just non-breaking spaces. I would be pleased if we could - it's a nuisance on all sites when it happens.
Andreas
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robg would need to answer that as I don't know anything about Geeklog.
AFAIK we users can't disable it once a previous post has caused it with a long line containing no spaces or just non-breaking spaces. I would be pleased if we could - it's a nuisance on all sites when it happens. We can, though, be kind to others by doing this! Andreas
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Should have this added to the MacOSXHints [pre] tag styles CSS:
pre {
overflow-x: auto; /* Use horizontal scroller if needed; for Firefox 2, not needed in Firefox 3 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}
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The problem isn't the pre code -- well, yes, that's a problem as well. However, if you look at what caused the screen to grow horizontally in this thread, it's a long line of JavaScript *plain text*. However, there aren't any spaces in the JavaScript, so the browser can't figure out where to break it.
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I couldn't revert to the old theme fast enough...
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