Comments on: Well, you whined asked for it

By: nolo

nolo — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 05:54:32 +0000

Thank you for the option to remain white on black. Who knew my comment would have such an impact?

By: nolo

nolo — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 05:54:16 +0000

Thank you for the option to remain white on black. Who knew my comment would have such an impact?

By: Cowboy Cody

Cowboy Cody — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:24:12 +0000

Black background. Screw the naysayers.

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:21:34 +0000

Z: We’re using the styles straight from MT without changes. The fact that they work in Firefox and not in IE makes us too mad to get it figured out.

SW: We’ve gone to a new and different zesty color for links.

Re: Opera — yes, the one time we saw S,N! in Opera we weren’t impressed.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:27:45 +0000

Scorpio you totally made that up.

By: automophant

automophant — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:03:07 +0000

Steve:

I ADMIRED that layout in Opera. It looked designy, and like nothing else on the Web.

Most people never saw the site that way, but it’s worth looking at, if you have Opera and grab up an old page from the Google-cache.

Whether it’s replicable for other browsers, I don’t know.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:54:04 +0000

The brain processes black-on-white a good 30% faster than white-on-black. I’m in favor of fast.

Scorpio
Eccentricity

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:48:44 +0000

So, may this be considered a Sadly, No flip-flop?

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:47:51 +0000

It looks fine to me in IE 6.0.28, but the dotted line around the content moves ever so slightly when you mouse-over the links. It’s strange.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:28:31 +0000

That’s a great idea and should please everybody. IE really sucks and is hard to code for. 8(

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:16:15 +0000

Never mind the colour scheme: under Opera the text of hyperlinks is about 20 point. In the right-hand column it all overlaps. That is fugly.

By: George

George — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:35:04 +0000

Hey, where's my stuff???

By: SullyWatch

SullyWatch — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:22:29 +0000

The gray’s OK. But go back to that zestier orange or whatever for linked text.

By: automophant

automophant — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:57:48 +0000

I can hear your voice, Seb, but I can’t see you. Why is it so dark in here?

…Oh no. A distant, swirly glow — a tunnel. I can’t feel my body.

Not yet, Seb! It’s too soon! I want to go back!

By: z

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:53:12 +0000

Check your background: property in the css for those divs. Looks like you’re setting the text color correctly, but the backgrounds are being fed a different value…

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:46:01 +0000

sound of monitors exploding

That was just me dropping my wine glass. Sorry.

By: automophant

automophant — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:40:19 +0000

Shh! He’s drunk and doesn’t know we’re here.

It’s all peaceful and black in here still. Not like the eye-stabbing photon blast a page back.

I’m trapped here, actually. I can’t hit the ‘back’ button without the pain taking over.

By: Pete M.

Pete M. — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:30:22 +0000

nobody will ever trust you again.

Who trusted him before?

By: automophant

automophant — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:24:32 +0000

(sound of monitors exploding)
agh! jeez!

well seb, there goes that readership. nobody will ever trust you again.