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Why not use a newer forum style. (reply)

kittens — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:46 +0000

Yeah, I gotta say, the format is one of the main things keeping me from using the forum. It's a bummer, cause the people seem pretty cool. I understand yall not wanting to change things, though.

Chrome for Android: here to save the day! (reply)

JDQuackers — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:56:06 +0000

It seems to happen to all replies on a thread starting 7 levels deep (heehee).

I tried both Chrome and Chrome Beta on both a phone and a tablet... all the same results. Not sure why it's happening, but it definitely seems like either the browser or the stylesheet is somehow shrinking the text to try and fit it all onscreen. If I rotate the tablet to landscape, the text increases in size, but is still noticeably smaller than the normal subject lines...

Chrome for iOS (reply)

Xenos — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:53:02 +0000

Chrome for iOS does this also. Very helpful

Chrome for Android: here to save the day! (reply)

bluerunner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:30:45 +0000

I swapped over to chrome on my phone, but it's doing weird things with the links to the posts. They're all different sizes. Some are normal sized, but some are very tiny right below them. Others are big like I'm zoomed in on them. What's causing that?

Chrome for Android: here to save the day! (reply)

JDQuackers — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:09:32 +0000

I'm the same way with Chrome's synching ability :)

I know mobile Firefox is awesome, but I'm so heavily invested in the Chrome/ChromeOS/Chrome for Android space that it's hard to break free!

Chrome for Android: here to save the day! (reply)

stabbim — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:03:51 +0000

Sounds great. I'll have to give it a try. I'm just so heavily invested in Firefox's sync for bookmarks/passwords and such now that I hardly ever touch Chrome. Sometimes I wish Chrome just sucked so it wouldn't be such a dilemma for me. :P

Chrome for Android: here to save the day! (reply)

JDQuackers — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:43:29 +0000

One of my favorite features of Chrome for Android is that if you hit a "link dense" part of a web page it will give you a little popup zoomed display so that you can hit the correct link.

Touch/Mobile devices? (reply)

kapowaz — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:39:35 +0000

Any thoughts to an 'adaptive/responsive design or separate style' that is more fat finger touch friendly when viewed on a smaller screen or mobile device?

I wrote a user stylesheet for HBO's forum back in the day, which I still use — I'm sure it'd be possible to create something for DBO that had a go at improving the legibility / layout for touch devices via media queries etc. I'll have a play with that …oh I don't know, probably sometime in early 2014 but hey, I'll see what I can do :)

Ooh, you're a CSS ninja? (reply)

thebruce — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:28:12 +0000

Thanks for the CSS. Every bit of help for the upcoming Forum Enhancer style (eta: next week) should help.

Well, thanks to Firefox's very easy development tools, locating and altering inline element styles is crazy simple. And being a web app developer has its benefits =P But anyone can learn css/html basics; makes life so much easier these days!

Touch/Mobile devices? (reply)

stabbim — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:14:25 +0000

Related: It used to be that most Android devices had a clickable trackball or trackpad, which was fantastic for hitting non-finger-friendly links on webpages - you could move the selection around between different links and then click on the one you actually wanted. Unfortunately, nothing in the last year or two has had that - it was phased out in favor of having as few buttons on the face as possible. :(

Touch/Mobile devices? (reply)

bluerunner — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:00:47 +0000

There's a little button next to the preview button for the first post of each thread. If you hit it you can see the entire thread with the replies indented. If you're looking at a post within a thread, you can open up the entire thread on one page by clicking the "Open in thread" button in the upper right corned. I've found these to be really helpful while reading on my phone. Otherwise I have the same problem of clicking links above and below the one I want to click.

Touch/Mobile devices? (reply)

GeekInABox — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:30:42 +0000

I'm glad we still have a threaded view ... I agree that's the way to go.

My only minor complaint or suggestion for improvement is that my fat almost-40 yr old fingers still struggle to hit the correct links when viewing the forums on a mobile device.

Any thoughts to an 'adaptive/responsive design or separate style' that is more fat finger touch friendly when viewed on a smaller screen or mobile device?

Ooh, you're a CSS ninja? (reply)

Arithmomaniac — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:21:57 +0000

Thanks for the CSS. Every bit of help for the upcoming Forum Enhancer style (eta: next week) should help.

Why not use a newer forum style. (reply)

thebruce — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:51:34 +0000

Just to note, I've used the Firefox Stylish plugin to make a couple esthetic customizations for myself, so far... including:

body { font-family:arial,sans-serif!important; }
#content p, #content ul, #content td { line-height:1.2em!important; }
ul.thread { margin-bottom:0.2em!important; }
div.posting { padding:7px!important; background:white!important; }

- Dropped the Verdana. It's a wide font, and I like packing things in :)
- As above, reduced the spacing between lines of text
- Removing the spacing between threads (back similar to the HBO appearance)
- Popped the comment block out from the light blue background; sometimes it's hard to tell the comment text from the rest of the page

no need. empty msg: no preview speech bubble. look left -> (reply)

thebruce — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:54:49 +0000

Empty msg? This alert:

- No "message" tex't has been entered

Thank God we're not. (reply)

thebruce — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:52:03 +0000

Well, it kinda is, but more so. And no more purple for the links. Purple is the worst color in the world. Besides orange.

I miss not having the visited links immediately turn :visited. Sometimes I open multiple comments in multiple tabs and read through them. Returning to the main list, they're no longer highlighted visited without refreshing. *sadface*

You want advice from someone who is demented? (reply)

scarab — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:16:37 +0000

Does that make sense to you? :-)

I got all confused. Listen too much to me and so will you. I'm having a day, week, month...

Thank God we're not. (reply)

NsU Soldier — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:49:32 +0000

Orange is amazing. Disagree? PISTOLS AT DAWN.

So be it. LET'S DO THIS.

Fellows! Let's settle this like civilized gentlemen.

Rocks at midnight.

Hmmm... (reply)

ZackDark — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:43:18 +0000

My line of thought was that, had we the forum style the OP was suggesting, there would be no way to NM.

Am I wrong?

Thank God we're not. (reply)

bluerunner — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:17:59 +0000

Orange is amazing. Disagree? PISTOLS AT DAWN.

So be it. LET'S DO THIS.