Please can you choose foreground and background colors that actually contrast with other a reasonable amount? Some of the journals on my friends list are getting offputtingly hard to read.
The ones I'm moaning about are where the comments page is in some hard-to-read style - I almost never read people's journals "directly" instead of through my own friends page.
Since you asked, the items on yours look fine to me, but the links at the top (website/userinfo/calendar) are a bit brown-on-brown and harder to make out, at least from here.
Yes, that's starting to get on my nerves. I have Mozilla set up to never show me anything but black on white, my fonts, nothing smaller than 13pt, but excreable layout is still unavoidable.
As a wishlist thing I've suggested that we be allowed to read comments pages in a format of our choosing...
I've just been playing with the S2 layout - it can make for a very shiny journal. But there is an option there to keep the old comments style. I'm faffing and faffing....
Keep the old comments style! Mind you, I think LJ's styles stuff is fundamentally wrong-headed; I want to be able to affect the styles for the stuff I read, not the stuff I write - my friends page and _other people's_ journal and comment pages.
I don't think we'll ever see this for journals because too many people would protest that their supposed design was being suppressed by nasty people who, er, don't want to see it; but I think there's still a chance to win the battle for comments pages.
Well, I have for now (although it imposes the new one by default). I'm prettying it up (dafting it up) for *me* - so it's the bits I see that count.
I can understand making your *journal* a certain style. Although for me it's more important that the wording scattered about is reflective of my kitten-based plotting than how it actually looks. But imposing that on other people is definitely not right. But anything else just makes it harder for people to read. If comments pages jump style every time you click - it's disconcerting and harder, therefore, to follow.
That's just a limitation of the tabular indent style - it won't let you choose different link colours on different background colours. This is somewhat foolish given the considerable advantage in other respects to a high contrast between various backgrounds.
I'd love to fix it, but nobody can tell me how to get a copy of the tabular indent style to use as a starting point for my own (only very slightly different) style.
There are also some comments page styles that get w3m confused in such a way that it renders the relevant bits in more than 80 columns and I have to scroll left and right all the time to read it. I don't know whether it's a w3m bug or not (probably), but it's VERY ANNOYING nevertheless.
The default comments style doesn't do this, so if I had the choice I'd just stick to that for everyone, since in w3m I don't see most of the cutesy formatting anyway.
(a) what is S2? (b) which bit is it that lets you change the style of the comments page?
[An unrelated bugbear is the way that LJ splits up the comments page if there are more than, say, 30 comments on it, seemingly without offering a link to view it in flat mode.]
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Date: 2003-08-05 02:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-08-05 02:44 pm (UTC)The ones I'm moaning about are where the comments page is in some hard-to-read style - I almost never read people's journals "directly" instead of through my own friends page.
Since you asked, the items on yours look fine to me, but the links at the top (website/userinfo/calendar) are a bit brown-on-brown and harder to make out, at least from here.
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Date: 2003-08-05 02:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-05 03:21 pm (UTC)As a wishlist thing I've suggested that we be allowed to read comments pages in a format of our choosing...
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Date: 2003-08-05 03:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-05 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-05 04:01 pm (UTC)I don't think we'll ever see this for journals because too many people would protest that their supposed design was being suppressed by nasty people who, er, don't want to see it; but I think there's still a chance to win the battle for comments pages.
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Date: 2003-08-05 04:13 pm (UTC)I can understand making your *journal* a certain style. Although for me it's more important that the wording scattered about is reflective of my kitten-based plotting than how it actually looks. But imposing that on other people is definitely not right. But anything else just makes it harder for people to read. If comments pages jump style every time you click - it's disconcerting and harder, therefore, to follow.
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Date: 2003-08-05 04:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-05 04:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-06 03:18 am (UTC)Here's an example (http://users.pepperfish.org/rjek/geraldscheme.png) :)
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Date: 2003-08-06 04:10 am (UTC)I'd love to fix it, but nobody can tell me how to get a copy of the tabular indent style to use as a starting point for my own (only very slightly different) style.
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Date: 2003-08-06 03:22 am (UTC)The default comments style doesn't do this, so if I had the choice I'd just stick to that for everyone, since in w3m I don't see most of the cutesy formatting anyway.
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Date: 2003-08-07 09:45 am (UTC)(a) what is S2?
(b) which bit is it that lets you change the style of the comments page?
[An unrelated bugbear is the way that LJ splits up the comments page if there are more than, say, 30 comments on it, seemingly without offering a link to view it in flat mode.]