Which stylesheet do you use? (because I want to know and because polls need testing too, perhaps)

clicking the options here won't change your layout, btw. (yeah, I did it too, already. and I was the one who started this poll. tsk.)

Old.css, because I'm a reactionary foo(bar).
Any chance the page could have some "your vote has been hugged" message once you've hit vote? (Not a separate intermediary page obv, since that would likely be annoying)

ILX being down made me recognize that I have a sad tendency to click that ILX bookmark completely automatically whenever I'm slightly bored.

im using old.css @ the moment because its the best

old.css because i fear the future

old.css, simply because it looks the most familiar

i'm also old

did anyone ever use the terminal one you will feel like a robot

its amazing

old.css should be the default - its ilx's trademark

blueski's one is crap :D

ILX being down made me recognize that I have a sad tendency to click that ILX bookmark completely automatically whenever I'm slightly bored.

^^^

old.css is iconic by this point.

and yeah, I have a frightening habit of clicking my ILX bookmark every spare moment even when I know the boards are down.

it's most of use habit otherwise we wouldnt be here so fast after the site rebirth

I use Blueski's.

old one. because I AM OLD

Old css.

Old like the rest of you.

Another vote for old.css. This is the most one-sided poll ever.

i switched to old.css right off the bat, but now i am on the new stylesheet and liking it. unfortunately, i voted for old.css before i switched, so oops.

old css!

er, old. what else? first thing i changed.

i haven't switched back to old.css yet, so we'll give this new shit a try

i prefer the style.css, but today i'm using the terminal one for a larf and because i love the pink border around the Post box

oh wow you can resize the Post box !

um, you could do that anyway in safari

lol shitting hell i've only just noticed it

me too, if it's any consolation. mind you, i don't use firefox.

hang on, gbx wasn't talking about firefox. he was talking about safari. which i do use.

so i guess i'm basically an arse, in a variety of ways. ach.

old.css at home, keith.css on iphone

ON IPHONE

SENT FROM MY IPHONE WIRELESS HANDSET DEVICE

Not to boast, but naus.css is pretty good too.

Yeah, take a wild guess which one I prefer.

I never used old.css, even when it was default.css. Or if I did I changed my browser default fonts so I wouldn't have to look at Times New Roman all day. To me it feels like driving into the wrong part of town.

Not to boast, but naus.css is pretty good too.

:)

Yes, I get it. Naus.css is a great big "fuck you" to people like me.

TNR is horrible.

OH JESUS NAUS.CSS MY EYES

I've actually changed from keith.css to style.css over the last couple of days and I think I like it.

<3 naus penguin

old.css cuz it's what I'm used to, classic, iconic, I am a stubborn, etc. I second whoever said it should be the default.

I really love Kenan's stylesheet. It's ace.

Naus is just so NO. I'm not 15 yrs old.

Aw. Thanks nath. :)

Naus.css is a great big "fuck you" to people like me.

…

OH JESUS NAUS.CSS MY EYES

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Naus is just so NO. I'm not 15 yrs old.

I guess none of y'alls ever visited the old Aja/Dante board. That's what it looked like, all the time. Bitch and a half it was to put together, now that nu-nu-ILX doesn't use "hr" tags between every post.

NVR 4GET

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Old.css EASILY. Agreed that it should be the default - it is what ILX looks like, all others are local variants that should be granted religious freedom but are by no means legitimate pretenders to the throne.

old.css. It's like an old friend.

old.css because I am simple - just like it is. oh, and old, too.

"Aw. Thanks nath. :)"

No way, dude, thank YOU. :-) How's it going anyway? Even though I'm online all the time - thanks to my iphone - I can't seem to get in touch with y'alls. :-)

might be worth noting that when I tried to vote while logged out I got an "Error Has Occurred, Try Again Shortly" message.

anything other than old.css looks horrible and wrong to me.

old.css

I like serifs.

old.css!!!!!

I'm using Standard Stylesheet for the time being. Several of them hurt my eyes, particularly the IBM one.

old.css, but keith.css looks pretty readable

keith.css, easy. With the upgrade, I went thru and tested all the stylesheets just to remind myself and see what was new, and keith.css is still the most readable: Posts are differentiated by non-obnoxiously colored boxes, margins are healthy (I can't believe how many of the ILX stylesheet makers just don't get this), and the alignment is reasonable. It's not innovative or anything, but that's not really the point.

What could be improved: post divs should be white, so's to best blend with random pic pastes.

blueski remains my favorite

Someone should tell blueski about margins.

black.css easily wins the absolutely unreadable award, tho.

i really like what blueski looks like, but it gets all garbled on my machine

grinding genitals into sauce, boss

sheesh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I presume about 90 percent of the old.css votes are sheer nostalgia.

If by "90" you mean "1", then yes.

style-monochrome.css: Standard Stylesheet in monochrome

I'll cop to choosing blueski if for no other reason than all the other stylesheets' fonts are too big.

I like only having to hit page down once on the New Answers page.

press ctrl-minus

No, blueski.css will do fine, thx.

kenan's font is small too

I wish keith.css didn't use Verdana, but otherwise that get's my vote now.

God, I hate Verdana. I should stop typing.

The problem with the fact that you can count on only about 10 fonts existing on all computers is that they're all pretty well shopworn by now. E.g., there are (to my knowledge) 4 sans-serif fonts you can count on being available to any graphical web-display device:

• Arial
• Verdana
• Trebuchet MS
• Lucida Sans

TNR is shit on screens anyway.

TNR is shit on screens anyway.

I seem to recall that the next version of Firefox will contain dynamic font technology. (Does anyone remember Truedoc?) I suppose that might shake up the snowglobe a bit.

xp to libcrypt. Sure, I realize all too well that typographical options on the web are limited, Times sucks, Verdana is a screen font, the Typography unit at Microsoft is surprisingly sophisticated and well-funded for a company with such poor corporate taste, Eric Gill slept with his daughter and his dog, etc., etc., but I still hate Verdana.

xp, there's an IE version too: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/21/font-embedding-on-the-web.aspx

I love Verdana but it is growing a bit tired.

Does old.css's win tell us something about some vague inherent conservatism or fear/dislike of change? Or is it simply the most useable/readable one of the bunch? Do new members also pick old.css when they experiment with their preferences?

I expected the default one would win.

Actually, black Times against a white background doesn't exactly scream out to the rest of the office that you're posting to message boards all day. It could be a Word document for all they know.

(xpost)

old.css is great because it's simpler and wittier.

do this poll again after my new one drops, it could get DOUBLE the votes

which thread was the list of css classes on?

Boards page, ILX Styles link near the bottom.

coming soon: caek.css

Will caek.css drop SCIENCE on us? Coz ifso, that's the one I'm going for. (Though I want assurances it will not generate tiny black holes in my operating system.)

the background image will be the hubble deep field and all text will be at 6x10^-36 pt.

Yesss!!!!

(Can all posts by killfiled members be shown being sucked into supermassive black hole at centre of galaxy, please?)

I would like to add my vote for Kenan's style sheet although I missed this actual poll. It's so sleek and minimalist. Brings a level of class to Ilx I didn't think possible.

Thank you, though I can't take credit for the minimalist part. That's pretty much enforced by the html, and rightly so.

old.css should be the default - its ilx's trademark

― update prefs (ice crӕm), Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:44 PM (5 days ago)

Yeah making old.css the default seems sensible.

it's really really easy to change it tho... i wonder if noobs would naturally drift to old.css. it might be worth keeping the default as is for some sort of experiment there (ymmv re worth of course)

Um, what just happened?

new blueski.css is available now, rewritten for the new code

I guess that's what happened. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

it's awesome :)

i could make the line between each post fainter maybe

Actually, I'm fine with that. It's the New Answers page that I feel unsure about. Like there's too much space between each thread title, maybe? It might just be something I'll get used to, though.

It is really good. Nice one.

Oh and thanks for sorting it out.

i approve of new blueski.css. some text is a little bit small for my eyes is my only grumble.

old.css should be deleted to force these luddites to get with the times, man

shut the fuck up you fucking cunt

oh snap

i don't think you are Jonathan Williams, are you?

Whoa, quotes in light blue is awesome!

sorry it took so long keef

jaymc, that did occur to me but i do think it makes it a little bit clearer overall

Yeah, I think I'll be OK. Good work, Steve.

also the square bullets look weird, varying heights somehow. fiddling with the gap between thread titles might fix that i dunno.

If there was a version of keith.css that used serif fonts, I'd use that. READABILITY!!!

Well, I stuck a keith2 (and a style3) there that have the fonts removed, so they will pick up whatever font your browser is set to use.

SWEEEEET, thanks!

oh yeh style3 ftw

Yeah, that's the one right thurr.

shit, steve, nu-blueski is really damn nice. i'm gonna try using it on this mac (powerbook) for a bit and keep old_git.css on the other one -- see how i get on.

Hey, nu-blu is pretty nice! I'd maybe double the left margin (or more, actually have it more or less match the right margin) and pick a slightly larger and serifed font for the main text. And probably make the input box thinner. But... hm!

so, can you change the font size on blueski? cos that font that shows is too small for me. otherwise i like it. i might even use it if i could make the text bigger.

i like the stealthiness of style-monochrome-no-borders.css: Standard Stylesheet in monochrome, tables with no borders

it also adds a poetic charm

so, can you change the font size on blueski? cos that font that shows is too small for me. otherwise i like it. i might even use it if i could make the text bigger.

browser zoom/text size should override the css

i'll probably do a version without fixed text sizes tho

I'd love to see a version of iPhone.css with a sans font. I'd do it myself if I had a clue about stylesheets.

i'll probably do a version without fixed text sizes tho

great. thanks!

starting to dig kenan_style

style-monochrome-no-borders.css because the other styles looks so.... board-y.

I now use blueski-2.css, because I made it last night as a modification and homage to Stevem's great work on blueski.css.

^ dude loves his margins

You are right - I'm with libcrypt there...

is it ok if i send you caek2.css or are you snowed under?

No, go ahead - no problem. So far, you have 37 fans of large images.

I switched from old.css to caek.css after old.css began showing the "has new answers" text in red instead of blue. That's kinda distracting, I'm not sure why it was changed... Caek.css still has the text in regular blue.

How strange, I didn't change it. Maybe you should check your machine for viruses.

OK, that's changed back. I don't recall ever changing that.

Thanks! I guess I should've brought this up earlier.

No problem.

Incidentally, Caek - sticking up stylesheets takes two minutes, so don't worry about sending me them whenever - it's just programming major new functionality that takes a while!

rad

I now use blueski-2.css, because I made it last night as a modification and homage to Stevem's great work on blueski.css.

^^^^ this. Thanks!

Kenan has provided a new version of his stylesheet, plus a new Kenan's Dark Stylesheet too. Both look great.

Yeah, people had been telling me for a year or more that kenan.css looked all weird, and it was flat broke on Safari, but I only got up the motivation to fix the damn thing last night.

I like the dark one. Bookmarks are a bit bust, though: the list of updated ones appears unstyled, and the two bookmarking messages "Message Bookmarked" and "Bookmark Removed" are always visible at the top of the main frame.

I noticed that myself. There was a "display:hidden" that I accidentally stripped out. And the bookmarks list just needs a style. I will fix.

Thanks!

Testing, ignore this post.

Fixes to Kenan's stylesheets have been made and are now live.

Kenan, made a minor change to yours to just make the site admin message show the same as bookmarks... Assumed that's what you'd want, but let me know if not. It's a bit of a problem all these styles that don't often show on the site.

No, perfect. Thanks! Obv I don't see the admin menu. I just save a copy of each kind of page out of Firefox and style them.

Oh yeah the admin menu looks fine, I checked... Mainly because these pages are just made up of much the same stuff as everything else.

(but with added pure evil, obviously)

i have to tell you that i really like this "kenan dark"

Kenan's already dark enough for me.

Did a stylesheet disappear or something? My ILX suddenly looks different and going through all the available stylesheets, none of them are quite what I had before.

Or am I seriously going mad?

Actually, kenan's dark version is spiffy. It's a brave new world for me.

:) :)

is there anything that looks like "old" that's actually better?

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=5&url=www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40

whoaa test.css!! a nice balance between retro internet and actual legibility

◉ new.css: New… New World

this is very pretty.

Yeah, I may grow to like this more than the old style. Definitely more attractive than what we've had for the last two months.

I DONT LIKE CHANGE

just changed mine to

keith.css: Original ILX2 Stylesheet. Highlights DIVs

which i think is the most similar to the one i was using before.

I FEAR CHANGE.

i am all about caek.css nowadays

I find keith.css to be very functional. It doesn't get all up in my face, but it provides enough color and contrast it doesn't sink into dead uniformity.

DEAD UNIFORMITY 4 LYFE

Don't wanna blow anybody's mind here, but check this out

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=I+Love+Music%2e

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=ILE+Awards+Nominations

no way

Haha yeah way

now it's the one it says "caek's stylesheet" -- is that the same as old.css?

the times new roman, and the white

it's really just the best thing i've ever seen

it's old.css but it doesn't shrink down big images

i use new.css now, but i wish it wasn't fully justified (minor point) and didn't scale images

like what is the possible logic behind this?

max-width:60%;
max-height:800px;

kenan_dark_style.css is rocking my socks atm

it's old.css but it doesn't shrink down big images

― caek, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still love this, i try to try new things but i just can't

can someone make a new.css stylesheet that doesn't resize images? that would be perfect

Many thanks to whoever created standard-dark.css - my first stylesheet change in at least ten years!

Yeah I use standard-dark, very nice.

the only issue I have with it though is it doesn't appear to have the "Unread Posts" label

which one do you mean? (the label)

black.css for life!!

I switched over to standard-dark a while back and it's been a good change, very easy to read.

My only gripe is with reading quote blocks on my phone. It formats them extremely narrow, so you only get a couple words per line.

Aww, crap. It looks like naus.css is broken because imageshack.us sold out. Any chance I could host that penguin .gif on the ilxor servers and amend the css to preserve that Aja/Dante legacy forever? It's not like anybody's ever going to use it.

Yeah - send it to stet @ ilxor dot com pls!