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§ ita § - Jan 19, 2005 4:01:42 am PST #9330 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

DX, I was just kidding.

So where are we with sheet options? Is it being considered over tweaking individual settings? If it is predefined sheets, are those options workable?


Liese S. - Jan 19, 2005 4:08:10 am PST #9331 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

IMO, yes and yes. So long as we manage to find a way to make DX happy. Heh.


DXMachina - Jan 19, 2005 4:27:38 am PST #9332 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

DX, I was just kidding.

I know you were. You asked which of the proposed changes to the code I would like to see. If we can't do it, we can't do it. I just don't see why we have to be locked in to such a fugugly default font.

And this is not about making me happy. If I'm the only person who has a problem with the font, then take it off the list.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2005 4:34:32 am PST #9333 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You asked which of the proposed changes to the code I would like to see.

I was kidding about stealing your font, not kidding about what changes you want.

If we can easily set up cascade so that there's a barebones resulting style -- it seems a good thing for usability too, fug aside.


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2005 4:51:31 am PST #9334 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I like Verdana, but I don't want it to be the default for every site I visit. I'd be fine with making the b.org font selectable.


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2005 4:53:02 am PST #9335 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If we can easily set up cascade so that there's a barebones resulting style

Seems like that should be doable, but I'd need to experiment.

ita - did you get my email with the new bookmarks page?


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2005 5:15:32 am PST #9336 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've got it, Jon, but I haven't had a chance to look at the HTML yet. My internet connection is going to be inconvenient until the weekend.

Seems like that should be doable, but I'd need to experiment.

From an automation PoV, do you think it will be best to have one base stylesheet and then a selectable one?


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2005 5:26:38 am PST #9337 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If we can get it to work, I'm thinking one base stylesheet, and then a style tag in every page's header with the font, either immediately before or after the base stylesheet (however that works, I can never remember).


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2005 5:28:57 am PST #9338 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm thinking one base stylesheet, and then a style tag in every page's header with the font, either immediately before or after the base stylesheet (however that works, I can never remember).

I'm thinking of a consistent mechanism to handle all the available styles, though. Can all the scenarios be handled the same way? Because I think we should prioritise the ones that can be abstracted and handled with a system.

I like systems.


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2005 5:50:44 am PST #9339 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Are you thinking customizable stylesheets, but limited to a set of choices? Or fully customizable? For example, fonts: Would we give folks a list of possible font sets to choose from, or could they type in whatever font they wanted?

If it's the latter, you may need user-specific stylesheets. If it's the former, then we could set up a stack of stylesheets for however many permutations we need. But that could get messy if we allow more than a few elements to be user-definable.

Actually, the more I think about it, if you want a system, then the easiest thing might be user-specific stylesheets.