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New Style
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:50 pm
by Collector
I have mostly finished the new board style and have set it as default. I think you will find it easier on the eyes than Prosilver.
Let me know if you find any oddities or have any suggestions/reactions.
Re: New Style
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:58 pm
by MusicallyInspired
At last. Though, I did like how the old style restricted the width of the content. It's a little too wide for a forum on a 27" 1080p 16:9 monitor.
Re: New Style
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:02 pm
by Collector
You can always not make the browser full screen. One thing nice about the scaling, it makes the style compatible with your phone.
Re: New Style
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:20 pm
by MusicallyInspired
That's rather inconvenient...All you'd need to do is make a max-width CSS entry for the body. Something like 1000px.
It's fine, I guess. Now that I take notice, most of the other forums I frequent don't have a max-width set either. Maybe it's the fact that the avatar space is so big. It really only needs to be as wide as the avatar but in my view it's so big there's room for two avatars side-by side leaving a lot of empty space for no good reason.
Re: New Style
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:27 pm
by Collector
That was the Prosilver default. I think it is to allow much larger avatars. It probably would not be that hard to make it more dynamic, that is to vary according to the width of avatars in use, but that would probably take some tampering with the template files, which I am trying to avoid as much as possible to minimize upgrade headaches.
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:14 am
by Tawmis
I am digging this. Very ... wilderness like.
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:22 am
by Tawmis
I will say there is a bit of excess real estate between avatars and posts though...
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:03 am
by Qbix
Nice! Thanks for updating it
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:03 am
by Collector
Tawmis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:14 am
I am digging this. Very ... wilderness like.
You do get what the design is based on, don't you?
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:31 am
by MusicallyInspired
Just looking over the style sheets. It's fairly well embedded into the responsive design. It doesn't make sense to me that it'd be a percentage of the element's width but that's what it's set as. I'll fool around with it and see if I can fix that extra space issue without messing anything up. Then you don't have to do any heavy lifting and I can tell you exactly which lines in the style sheets to change.
EDIT: Yeah, never mind. After half an hour I've discovered I hate percentage-based CSS values.
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:36 pm
by Collector
I could try to see if I can set a maximum width for the profiles, but it will have to wait until I have some time.
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:47 pm
by Tawmis
It doesn't bother me in the least, myself. Was just noticing it, is all.
Re: New Style
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:48 pm
by Collector
I have spotted a few things that need fixed, but who knows when I'll have more time to give it.
Re: New Style
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:53 am
by BBP
It's starting to look nice!
Re: New Style
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:23 am
by Collector
I am surprised that no one has noticed what the style is based on.