Should be all cleared up. Good catch, dcp.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2009 1:20:27 pm PDT #2719 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 3:14:16 am PDT #2720 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For documentation purposes I diagrammed out the CSS as it currently stands on the two main pages:
Doing so has shown me some inconsistencies and redundancies, so I may be making some changes in the next few days. I'll outline what they are here when I do, but they shouldn't break anyone's CSS unless they were getting really fancy.
And if anyone *is* getting really fancy, I'd love to see what you've done, especially if you've moved elements around the page.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 4:37:27 am PDT #2721 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, and here are the containers diagrammed out--it's very busy, but most of those containers are being used. It may be possible to clean things up with inheritance, though. That's what I'm going to look into.
What are people who've tweaked the CSS changed? Spoilers? Background and text colours? Fonts?
DebetEsse - Apr 04, 2009 4:42:16 am PDT #2722 of 4673
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I've changed the spoiler font color and page background color (which is how I discovered that the message center graphic has a white background)
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 4:50:19 am PDT #2723 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm all "there's a graphic on the message center page?" I dropped all the images out of my style, so I have nothing but the buttons. It's my work-friendly (ironic!) stylesheet, with less colour and fewer pictures.
All those title graphics have white backgrounds, don't they? I mean the edit and delete, etc. They'd probably look pretty messy with a transparent background on a coloured page. Such is the limitation of GIF transparency.
I wonder how extensive PNG transparency support is these days.
DebetEsse - Apr 04, 2009 4:52:55 am PDT #2724 of 4673
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The Buffistas.org logo in the left corner seems to be transparent. The buttons don't bug me because of the outlines.
::pokes around site::
Yeah, the only one I notice looking odd is "message center"
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 4:58:10 am PDT #2725 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Really? What colour did you switch your background to?
Huh.
From poking around on b.net it seems that edit, etc, have backgrounds too.
DebetEsse - Apr 04, 2009 5:00:34 am PDT #2726 of 4673
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It's a pale grey. (I always used to turn my screen brightness way down because the white was really white, so, given the opportunity, I went with something less bright)
huh.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 5:36:35 am PDT #2727 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no idea why you didn't see background in the others--only the board logo had a transparent background. I tried them out on b.net, and they're messy in other distinct colours. I'm not sure whether it's an upgrade to lose the crisp edges, even if the rectangle is obtrusive.
Other opinions?
Jon B. - Apr 04, 2009 6:11:12 am PDT #2728 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Such is the limitation of GIF transparency.
Indeed. At the time I designed all the graphics, I didn't think other colored backgrounds were an issue, so I didn't bother trying to make them transparent. But they would probably look crappy on other colored backgrounds transparent or not.