Making Quotes Readable

[Xeoncross]

I know that you are trying to cut back on the amount of spaced used by quote boxes - but what if the quote is from OFFSITE and therefor is not repeated? You can barely see the box text with a "font-size: x-small" setting.

 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, change the CSS to something like this:

/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
.quote {
background-color: #eee;
border: 1px solid #aaa;
margin: 1px;
padding: 5px;
font-size: 90%;
line-height: 150%;
        /* If something is worth quoting...
        it is worth seeing */
}

 

Don't make all use look at small text just because some people don't know how to use the quote button. 

 

[neylitalo]

My first thought is that it's probably an SMF problem, and should be reported to them. My second thought is that any competent web browser (Opera, Firefox) will let you set a minimum font size, so you don't have that problem.

[Xeoncross]

No, display is set at the presentation level. There is no way SMF could set that absolutely.

 

Simply open http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/Themes/default/style.css?fin11 and change that file to the code above.

 

It should never be left to the user to make sure a site is readable - that is the sites job. Plus even if I change the font size the background is still dark purple which is horrid with black text (maybe if the text was white...). I could make the change myself in 9.2 sec with access to the FTP account ;P

[Daniel0]

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I don't think that's particularly small. If you're having trouble reading it you could always increase the text size in your browser.

 

I could make the change myself in 9.2 sec with access to the FTP account ;P

We don't use FTP

[Xeoncross]

 

Take a look at the image I have attached.

 

Also, if you don't use FTP what do you use? a custom Curl setup?

 

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[Daniel0]

Sure, it's both easier to read and it looks nicer. I'll consider changing it.

 

Also, if you don't use FTP what do you use? a custom Curl setup?

 

We only use SCP and SSH. It's more secure.

[Daniel0]

Is this better?

[Xeoncross]

 

Sweet 

 

Now I won't second-guess myself when I have to use a quote.

[beansandsausages]

 

Sweet 

 

Now I won't second-guess myself when I have to use a quote.

 

TEST POST FOR QUOTES

[GingerRobot]

 

Sweet 

 

Now I won't second-guess myself when I have to use a quote.

 

TEST POST FOR QUOTES

 

A.K.A a post count increaser?

[beansandsausages]

 

Sweet 

 

Now I won't second-guess myself when I have to use a quote.

 

TEST POST FOR QUOTES

 

A.K.A a post count increaser?

 

Ha nope i couldnt see the diffrence so i thought must be on new posts, Till i refreshed the page sorry. And deleted my Temp Files, Cookies Etc ... ... So i am sorry if it seemed like a post count increase.

[Daniel0]

It seems that setting the font size to a percentage has a downside. Nested quotes are becoming increasingly more small... I'll see what I can do about that.

 

Edit: Should be better now.

[Xeoncross]

It seems that setting the font size to a percentage has a downside. Nested quotes are becoming increasingly more small... I'll see what I can do about that.

 

oops, I can't believe I forgot about nesting. 

Anyway, the site looks great now.

 

font-size: 11px;

[fenway]

Actually, I really like it too...good stuff.

[Xeoncross]

 

 

hehe, do I get brownie points? 

[revraz]

Yes, 149 of them.

[Xeoncross]

Yes, 149 of them.

 

Sweet! 

 

 

(those aren't those exploding kind are they?)

 

 

[revraz]

Looks like the CODE font shrunk now.

[Daniel0]

foobar

 

Hmm... perhaps. I don't know. It seems there are a lot of font changes. I'll work at getting the stylesheets (including the header) updated.

[revraz]

Also looks like the Sig font increased as well.

[Daniel0]

Signature size decreased,

 looks like [code], [code] size increased, [quote] style changed back to how it was before.

[Xeoncross]

Do  you think that we could also increase the code size? 9pt is a little small on a 1280 or lager screen. Plus the outside border is a bit close to the text so a increased padding would be nice.

 

font-size: 10pt;
width: 98%;
padding: 1%;
border: 1px solid #aaa;