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The Lounge / Re: Strange Pets
Arms? How odd. The rabbit was mostly turned on by brooms, which seems a bit… painful to me.
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Forum Administration / Re: Forum requirements and (un)desirables
Quote from: jax on
That feature you can thank/blame me. One of the forums I was active in (CNET Builder, I believe) at the time the forums were redesigned had this feature, and I really liked it for all the reasons you stated. I still really like it, so +1 from me. It requires that the first post is visually distinct from the other posts, otherwise it can be confusing.

An initial implementation is available as an option in Look and Layout.
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Quote from: j7n on
I recognize that technology has changed, and displays have become larger. But the web has used the same 10pt font for so many years that is hard to change my reading habit.

10 points is 10 points is 10 points. Except on buggy computers, which I believe is still all of them. :P Incidentally, a CSS pixel is technically also a physical size:

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in: inches — 1in is equal to 2.54cm.
cm: centimeters
mm: millimeters
pt: points — the points used by CSS are equal to 1/72nd of 1in.
pc: picas — 1pc is equal to 12pt.
px: pixel units — 1px is equal to 0.75pt.


That's theory. In practice, point is unstable and a pixel is mostly the physical pixel—except on an Apple Retina display where I believe it might be 4 physical pixels.

Quote from: j7n on
What's the average screen size of portable devices ("phones") today?

Mine is 3.3" with a resolution of 854×480, which is about average. Most phones sold today tend to have bigger screens and even better PPI. Like I said before, I'd totally use the iPad display (or two of them) as a desktop monitor.
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Forum Administration / Re: Forum requirements and (un)desirables
The page number code is more integrated in the core of the forum and less available in the theme than I'd like. I wrote a quick JS that provides the prev/next functionality for now instead. By quick I also mean it won't work in Opera <10 because that would complicate matters.
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Quote from: Belfrager on
one - why changing for such a big font? yes, I went to preferences and defined 14px, but unless someone has specifically asked for this, the older font seems to me to be perfectly  acceptable. No web site uses such a big font anymore.

That's not quite true. Many, including Opera's, choose a font-size of 100%. What 100% means is not up to me.

Simply put, 14px can be large on one display, medium on another, and small or even illegibly small on yet another. On the other hand, 100% should always be legible. 80% of course should also be legible, but it still seems iffy because that's the "small" compared to the user's choice.

Quote from: j7n on
82% seems to hit the normal web font size of 10pt, although I'm not too familiar with Trebuchet MS to tell for sure (Verdana / Tahoma definitely would have fallen apart on anything but 8pt, 9pt or 10pt).

While theoretically points should work on any medium and result in the same physical font size, in practice points are only dependable in print. Or perhaps you're confused by the ancient Mac bug where pt and px were equivalent?

Quote from: j7n on
Reasons why? I guess the effective pixel density of modern screens has increased, and modern fonts no longer have bitmaps or fine hints in them to target exact pixels, and then we need type big to look good.

Seeing pixels never looks good. To get something that looks mostly good, you need at least 200+ppi. On my phone, type is legible at what would be a completely illegible 3px or so on my desktop monitor. Don't confuse using more pixels and larger type.

As an aside, DejaVu Sans is reasonably legible at 8px and fully legible at 9px. Of course it can't beat a true 8px pixel font, which will also be fully legible at 8px.


DejaVu Sans at 9px.

Quote from: j7n on
What's this have to do with Facebook? Last time I was there a couple weeks ago, it had many small panels around, and small buttons on them with small labels.

While it probably doesn't apply to everything, I'd say you can generally do the opposite of Facebook without giving it much thought and you'd probably be doing the right thing.
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Haha. :) In practice 1em is equivalent to 100%, 1.5em to 150%, etc. Although it just occurs to me that 1.5 em is not an accepted value so I might need to work on that too. I'm trying to figure out a bit of a balance between allowing configurability and not letting people shoot themselves in the foot by setting e.g. 0% (which is currently possible).

Btw, I'm still working out some kinks so it might not be completely stable yet.

Edit: while I was at it, I also disabled the ICQ, MSN, AIM and Y!M profile fields because no one was using them anyway. I don't really care either way, but it looked a bit silly with all those columns being completely empty in the memberlist.
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DnD Central / FAQ
Why are the fonts so large?
I believe that users should be able to choose their default font size, and browsers universally choose a default of 16px. In case you don't want to change your user preferred font size because other sites disrespect it, there's a setting available in the looks and appearances area of the profile.

Why don't you have a better quick quote?
It'll take some time; please be patient.

Is there a manual?
Why yes, there is. View it here.

I came from My Opera. What are the differences?
There are fewer differences than on a vanilla Simple Machines installation. The first post is displayed on every page of a forum thread, but this can be disabled in your profile. My Bookmarks is the equivalent to My Opera's subscription manager, but e-mails use a separate mechanism. So if you want to keep track of a particular thread without receiving e-mails, click Add Bookmark. If you want to receive e-mails about updates to a particular thread, click Notify.

I forgot, what are the rules?
There's a link to the T&C in the navigation bar on top.