At the moment I’m changing things in the style more or less by trial and error, not having done any “style” programming.
It would be a great help for the style-gurus to comment their styles documenting what settings are controlling what on the screen.
I’ll see what I can discover, but other contributions are welcome.
I usually use Opera, and will look into what options it has, as I prefer it to Firefox, but so far the Stylish solution has been quick / painless, a tiny download and is just great.
Just install stylish and look at the bottom of the Firefox window - there should be a new icon there. Click on it and then of “Find Styles for this page”. From there you can get three different styles.
Unfortunately, I don’t like any of them. BLACKEND is the best but it is overcompensating - it is way too dark! For what I would like to see, check out Sago’s mock up:
So, before I download and try it, assuming it works on Mac, can the change be saved at all and if so - for a specific site? Or do we have to “load” the style everytime we come back to BA?
Oh, just checked - it needs FF1.5+ and I’m only using FF1.0.7. I really can’t be bothered downloading a new browser just to be able to do the same thing I’ve been doing without issue for over a year
As for downloading a new browser, I hear ya, but that “white on white” was so painful I had to take extra measures And this seems to be working very smoothly, you can see the difference between links and bold.
I see that Opera has styles too, I’m going to mess around with it and see which works better /easier.
Now if the thread/post counts can be put back using this mechanism, I think “we” are all set
I totally understand your frustration, but please reconsider. It is generally a very good idea to always update to the latest browser version, because the older ones may (and mostly will) have security bugs that got fixed in the meantime. And once a security bug is known, it simply is too dangerous to continue using an unfixed browser.
Edit: Oh, and thanks for the tip, Mike_S. I’m currently playing with Stylish, making my own BA user stylesheet.
I’m currently using stylish with both the blackened and maximum real estate styles enabled and am fairly happy with the results. The header on top of posts is still a bit big but readability is much improved.
Just re-updated Another Style for ff , Blender Artists Forum: Grey
Based on the Blackened theme by “blenderist”
Couple of good functions, visited links change color until cookies cleared.
Easy to read. Needs some tweaking so if anyone can help with “time posted on main page is too dark, links are too dark” it would be great.
Burgandy/Grey/Black with well seperated scheme.
Hey, I’ve spent the last little while tweaking the style at http://userstyles.org/style/show/1408 until it’s kind of the way I like it. The colour scheme is not changed a great deal, I’ve just tried to massage it and the layout into a friendlier form. Feedback/suggestions are welcome.
You can also set a couple of styles together in combination.
I use my style with layout color tweak style. Or the fullscreen black combo.
At least there is something for everone now.
Sanne, in my eyes you have fixed Blenderartists! The remaining problems are things you can’t really help with (adverts in the middle of the page and last of post count).
Koba
EDIT> Actually, my only comment after five minutes is that the bright orange is starting to hurt my eyes a little. Perhaps a little darker there too? :rolleyes:
And this seems to be working very smoothly, you can see the difference between links and bold.
Just re-updated Another Style for ff , Blender Artists Forum: Grey
