Did somebody change the style sheets?

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:28 pm

Am I going crazy, or are we on a different font now for the forum indeces?

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:52 pm

Not that I've noticed; a bunch of files were altered earlier, and when a browser can't find stuff it usually selects a serif font by default. All should be okay now.

Random Sweep · Post by **Random Sweep** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:04 pm

One thing that I did notice is that the page numbers on the forum pages are no longer underlined

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:12 pm

They are if you put the pointer over them.

Yeah, there were inconsistent links throughout the site, some styled one way, some styled another way, some deferring to browser defaults. Should look a bit more uniform now.

Random Sweep · Post by **Random Sweep** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm

Fair enough.

I didnt think it used to be like that though

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:03 pm

My eyes are burning.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:11 pm

Would suggest Optrex. It's sterile and better than just cool water.

Originally posted by Random Sweep
I didnt think it used to be like that though

Mostly it was the site styled with hovers (though not quite consistently) and the board left to whatever the default was in the browser that was showing the page or just a slight colour variation.

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:58 pm

The thread titles are huge now for me on Firefox.

Plasmodium · Post by **Plasmodium** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:06 pm

The only thing Ive noticed is that the links dont have underlines, everything else appears to be the same I think. Im using FireFox too and the thread titles appear the right size.

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:34 pm

Now they're suddenly back to normal on mine, but I'm running the same browser session as when I posted that first message here.

I miss the underlined thread titles. :\

Skystream · Post by **Skystream** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:52 pm

Oh good, it's not just my computer going glitchy or something then, if other people have noticed a difference in the link fonts/styles too...

I'm using Firefox, and all the topic links etc. have now gone bold, and the underline only appears if you mouse over them.

*puzzles*

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:15 pm

Currently showing as expected here:

—Internet Explorer 4
—Internet Explorer 5
—Internet Explorer 5.5
—Internet Explorer 6
—Opera (current)
—Firefox (current)
—Mozilla (current)

The only thing that should possibly have changed (depending on how you have your browser set up) is that text links show a hover underline in the forum and across the rest of the site. Links in the main body of pages should have the same bold/normal display and text size as they did before.

Netscape 3 and 4 get as confused as they did before, and Netscape 4 still can't render the front page of the site (nothing new there.)

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:25 pm

The thinker Prime next to the ads is screwed up in the main index section.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:53 pm

Forum or site?

If you haven't already, hit Ctrl+F5. If either your browser or ISP is caching out of date files, things are gonna be unpredictable.

Also: you're not running an old (eg, any) version of Netscape, are you?

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:12 pm

He seems to be corrected now. He was scrolling up and you could see the bottom of his head below the iimage, where it was cut off. FYI I'm using Mozilla.

Post by **Warcry** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:59 am

Originally posted by Ultimate Weapon
He seems to be corrected now. He was scrolling up and you could see the bottom of his head below the iimage, where it was cut off. FYI I'm using Mozilla.

That happens to me sometimes too, but I don't think it's the site's fault per se. The text in some of the adds (Amazon.com is the one I've got up right now) is too big to fit in the usual add space, so it stretches the layout. The Prime pic (which by the looks of things is in the same table structure) is smaller than the space it's supposed to fill, so the browser is tiling it to fill the space.

Or at least, that's what my limited web design knowledge is telling me.

[EDIT] *points to attached screenshot*

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:47 am

The attachment is what it looks like in every browser I've tried. It's possible your browser isn't getting the stylesheet that's on the site, but is hanging on to one that's several days old.

Ctrl+F5 will most likely sort it out. If not you could try looking at your cache settings, make sure it's on Automatic, and maybe give it a clear.

(The Amazon ads are the only ones that have text in 'em. Rest are images.)

Post by **Warcry** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:34 am

I thought we had Google ads with text in them too...or maybe that's another site I visit.

I didn't think it was a cache problem, though, since I had several other tabs open at the same time in the same browser window, and that's the only one that had underlined links or stretched-out Amazon adds. I Ctrl+F5ed right after I took the screen shot, though, and it hasn't happened since... :\

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:08 am

Originally posted by Warcry
that's the only one that had underlined links

http://www.alistapart.com | http://www.microsoft.com | http://www.wanadoo.co.uk

It's quite common, and a bit clearer visually (also one of the reasons we try to avoid very small text.)

Your cache wouldn't affect how links are displayed on other sites. It's a stylesheet property (basic overview here.)

Post by **Warcry** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:29 pm

Er...no, I mean I had other TF Archive pages open in other tabs at the same time [some opened before the one I screen-shotted, some after], and that one was the only one showing underlined links. Hence my confusion...