Fred: The size and depth of the wound indicate a female vampire. Harmony: Or gay! Fred: Um…it doesn't really work like that.

'Harm's Way'


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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


amych - May 11, 2008 4:20:08 pm PDT #2012 of 4673
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Would it, hypothetically, work to take that code you linked to, plonk it in the 'edit personal css' input box, and then make changes to it as desired?

It would work fine, but it'd be unnecessarily slow -- the only parts you actually need are the changed bits, and it'll take anything you're keeping the same from the main stylesheet.


billytea - May 11, 2008 4:22:15 pm PDT #2013 of 4673
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

It would work fine, but it'd be unnecessarily slow -- the only parts you actually need are the changed bits, and it'll take anything you're keeping the same from the main stylesheet.

Ah, nice to know. Thanks.


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 4:47:35 pm PDT #2014 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can you mappy people tell me if you see the same thing here: [link] and [link] ?

Billytea, here's one CSS font tutorial. And there's also the w3 schools.


aurelia - May 11, 2008 4:56:53 pm PDT #2015 of 4673
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Can you mappy people tell me if you see the same thing here: [link] and [link] ?

Nope. The first one has non-transparent rectangles around the markers and the 2nd one doesn't have the rectangles but the markers look like they're in one of those funhouse mirrors that make you look tall and skinny.


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 4:57:35 pm PDT #2016 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You know what would be great for this effort? Some sort of tool that shows you what your browser is seeing--so if you hover your cursor over any element it tells you the class/id in effect so you can go off and edit your css sheet appropriately to hit that precise bit.


amych - May 11, 2008 4:59:03 pm PDT #2017 of 4673
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

The Web Developer add-on for Firefox does exactly that. Among many other shiny things. I wouldn't touch code without it, anymore.


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 5:02:22 pm PDT #2018 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The first one has non-transparent rectangles around the markers and the 2nd one doesn't have the rectangles but the markers look like they're in one of those funhouse mirrors that make you look tall and skinny.

Okay, what about between here [link] and [link] ?


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 5:02:51 pm PDT #2019 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Web Developer add-on for Firefox does exactly that. Among many other shiny things. I wouldn't touch code without it, anymore.

I must have a look.


aurelia - May 11, 2008 5:06:37 pm PDT #2020 of 4673
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I don't notice any change from the first pair of links. I even refreshed each page after clicking.


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 5:11:05 pm PDT #2021 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't notice any change from the first pair of links. I even refreshed each page after clicking.

That's because I'm an idiot and typed the wrong stuff. I mean this: [link] and [link]

That's a neat add-on, amy. Though it may be showing me a source of confusion. If I have t div class=theclassinquestion t p t a href="thelinkinquestion" linktext t /a t /p t /div shouldn't the effective class of the a tag be "theclassinquestion"? Both the add-on and my css tweaking say no, but I thought part of the point was that, yes, inheritable.