Which stylesheet do you use in 2011?

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

Poll Results

OptionVotes
old.css: Original ILX2 Live Stylesheet 6
blueski-2.css: New... Keith's Variation on Blueski 3
style.css: Standard Stylesheet 2
test.css: Test Stylesheet. Liable to change. 1
kenan_dark_style.css: Kenan's Stylesheet 1
naus.css: Naus's Styelsheet: comic sans; pretty in pink 1
caek.css: Caek's Stylesheet 1
style-monochrome-no-borders.css: Standard Stylesheet in monochrome, tables with no borders 0
style2.css: Standard Stylesheet 0
style3.css: Same as style.css, but with font removed, so will pick up default browser font 0
new.css: New... New World 0
style-monochrome.css: Standard Stylesheet in monochrome 0
ledge2.css: ledge: nevar forget 0
ledge1.css: ledge: a series of tubes 0
kenan_style.css: Kenan's Stylesheet 0
keith2.css: Same as keith.css, but with fonts removed so will pick up default browser font 0
keith.css: Original ILX2 Stylesheet. Highlights DIVs 0
iPhone.css: Stylesheet Designed for use on the iPhone 0
blueski.css: Stevem's Stylesheet 0
black.css: Black Background Stylesheet 0
3270.css: IBM 3270 Terminal Emulator 0


just johnin' (crüt), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:01 (fourteen years ago)

I was partial to old.css at first, but now I use blueski-2.css for better readability.

just johnin' (crüt), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:03 (fourteen years ago)

i use old.css because it looks the least suspicious at work

ciderpress, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:04 (fourteen years ago)

not that it matters but I just noticed the bookmarking function in naus.css doesn't work

gr8080, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:06 (fourteen years ago)

I might use naus.css from now on

just johnin' (crüt), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:09 (fourteen years ago)

standard

wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:11 (fourteen years ago)

old

when the president talks to based god (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:12 (fourteen years ago)

xp I think I fixed it once, but I don't think Keith is around anymore to put it up.

naus, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:12 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

kenan dark

iatee, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

makes it look like I'm reading some goth board but I hate looking at a blinding white light for long periods of time

iatee, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

test!!.css

talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Monday, 31 January 2011 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

Just old.

totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Monday, 31 January 2011 03:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

System, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I made a new one, swiss.css, and you can get it at Preferences → I want to change the way the site looks.... Not finished yet (the colours need sorting), but I'll do that in time. Hope you like it.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:05 (thirteen years ago)

it looks p fancy! I quite like it!

think I still like blueski but this is p keen

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:08 (thirteen years ago)

I like it!!

but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:10 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks guys!

I particularly like block quotes, which I was never happy with on the original stuff I did some years ago. I think they are better not being indented, but being highlighted in a different way.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

I have been using kenan dark for a while now.

Nostalgic Windows Midi (crüt), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:17 (thirteen years ago)

this is pretty dope!

乒乓, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:18 (thirteen years ago)

The dark side of Kenan is well worth investigating. It is a king amongst stylesheets.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:18 (thirteen years ago)

wow i love it

Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:22 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks, harbl!

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:23 (thirteen years ago)

my only comment is that the header font (ILX NEW ANSWERS, or WHICH STYLESHEET DO YOU USE IN 2011? for this page) could be just a bit smaller. still, i like it and i'll probably keep using it as is. thanks keith!

but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:24 (thirteen years ago)

and yeah, the block quotes look great!

but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:24 (thirteen years ago)

Ha ha, it's massive size is a 'thing' I actually had it probably 50% bigger than it currently is earlier today! I like big type.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:25 (thirteen years ago)

So maybe this is of interest:


+---------------------------------+----------+
| blueski-2.css | 1075 |
| style.css | 815 |
| old.css | 509 |
| new.css | 90 |
| kenan_dark_style.css | 30 |
| iPhone.css | 28 |
| keith.css | 27 |
| kenan_style.css | 24 |
| caek.css | 23 |
| blueski.css | 22 |
| swiss.css | 21 |
| style2.css | 13 |
| style3.css | 12 |
| black.css | 12 |
| blueski-css3.css | 10 |
| style-monochrome.css | 7 |
| style-monochrome-no-borders.css | 5 |
| keith2.css | 4 |
| 3270.css | 3 |
| test.css | 1 |
+---------------------------------+----------+

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:37 (thirteen years ago)

Also, it looks different on Windows and OSX, because of the different installed fonts on these systems. I tried to make it good fonts irrespective, but it does mean they are possibly quite different. Windows uses Franklin Gothic Book, but OSX looks like this:

http://i48.tinypic.com/scg7sx.png

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:40 (thirteen years ago)

looks nice but is too big for me @ 1024x768, sticking with kenan dark

a pizza-based environment (los blue jeans), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:46 (thirteen years ago)

Quite right, it wasn't really designed with low res in mind although the above picture is massive because it was taken from a Retina display.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

Trying out swiss.css, and I'm not seeing any difference between clicked and unclicked links. Is there nothing in the sheet for that?

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:38 (thirteen years ago)

Swiss is cool! A little softer on the eyes without losing the basic clarity and punchiness of ILX. Agreed that the thread title (and "Site New Answers") could be much smaller, and I would at least slightly shrink the various things in the "Add a Post" box - no way does "Display Name: whoever" need to be so big....

Could maybe also fold the show/hide formatting help option into the Add a Post box, as another button next to "Convert Simple HTML to BBcode"? Just a thought.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:47 (thirteen years ago)

Also wonder if something more dreamy and Wayne's World Flashback-y could come in with the "Three Years Pass..." breaks between revives, now that you have these gradients and soft tones. Not sure what exactly, but the current version seems a little harsh relative to the overall swiss chill factor.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:51 (thirteen years ago)

Swiss is probably the most tempting non-old.css stylesheet I've seen, but I'm gonna keep it old-school.

emil.y, Sunday, 4 November 2012 03:29 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I might eventually go back to old.css too. Trying to give this one a good shake though.

Am I right that italicized text is bigger?

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:53 (thirteen years ago)

Yes indeed, italicised text is bigger. I read that in a typography book somewhere that it's better to have italicised text 1pt larger than the surrounding text.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 10:53 (thirteen years ago)

Huh! Not sure how I feel about that - - - it kinda changes the way a post reads or is emphasized, for me at least. But interesting.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 November 2012 15:43 (thirteen years ago)

Swiss

Great chocolate

And cool stylesheet!

Tome Cruise (Matt P), Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

Thankyou!

Doctor, yes I thought it was odd when I read it, but I decided to try it and I have got to like it. It's certainly a bit odd, I mean, you'd think that type designers would just make their italicised versions a bit bigger but then there you are. The point the book made was that italics tend to look smaller at the same point size, so you get the same odd feeling of it not flowing so well. All very strange.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:37 (thirteen years ago)

i'm gonna keep this one for a while, i dig it

call all destroyer, Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

still curious about the clicked/unclicked links issue

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:57 (thirteen years ago)

Yes, I'm looking at that. It's quite tricky in that I'm trying to get an answer that lets you be able to tell, but doesn't make the screen look messy - it can be a bit of information overload when half the things on the page are one colour and half the other. It's not easy getting something that's close enough to look okay but different enough such that you can tell.

I'll stick something in, in a minute, but I may not leave it that way - not sure it works particularly well.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 17:06 (thirteen years ago)

Okay, I think I may have the answer. Only applies to threads on the new answers page, which makes things a bit tidier and makes them the same colour as the headings.

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 17:17 (thirteen years ago)

Looks great, thanks!

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 November 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

I added in a page to show you who's doing what. You can get it from the bottom of the front page (Theme Statistics):

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/stylesheet-popularity.jsp

Keith, Sunday, 4 November 2012 22:16 (thirteen years ago)

hey keith, question about the new style--

when you try to post something but other ppl have posted in the thread while you were typing, the page that shows their messages seems to be displaying their message text in the blue color, which implies that their messages are links. am i wrong about this? was it intentional? thanks!

call all destroyer, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:05 (thirteen years ago)

No, that's just a balls up. I'll sort it out tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know.

Keith, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)

np! thanks again.

call all destroyer, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)

kenan_style.css	23

22 other people and I know what's what.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:09 (thirteen years ago)

There'll probably be a few balls ups in there in esoteric places that I didn't notice, because I did this one completely from scratch; it wasn't a modification of what existed already, so I'll sort them out as they pop up - I do want to get this one perfect though (whatever that means).

Keith, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:11 (thirteen years ago)

Also, this doesn't look exactly like old ILX (it couldn't really as there are more functions nowadays). I think what I was aiming at was roughly the same style - just text, but just removing the bits that were just functions of it being how browsers rendered HTML by default back then. Trying to be a bit more ordered without losing the basic "just a bunch of text" thing.

xp

Keith, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:50 (twelve years ago)

im sure i will stick with this just long enough to never remember what i used to use and then try css3 and be convinced that wasnt it, which is what happened to me the last time i did this

submit post and convert buttons seem comically large to me as well

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)

oh weird, when you xpost in this the previous post turns into a link or something wtf? am i just noticing this for the first time because its link colored (and adds underline when moused over) or is that a thing thats always been like that

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:52 (twelve years ago)

I do like Swiss, but I never did resolve my issues with Helvetica (a version of Helvetica that I have installed for work) not displaying properly in Chrome.

The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:53 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I'm going to change the buttons. They're just default browser buttons. Actually, I've already changed them, but they're still not very good, so will work on them more.

xp

Keith, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:53 (twelve years ago)

regretting not clicking on the xpost now, it might have taken me to some magical uberilx

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

Yeah that xpost bug has been there for years. It's because I forgot to type a ">" in 2006 once.

Keith, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:56 (twelve years ago)

ha i think i never noticed it before because css3 has it in red or something right, which is not the color links are goddamnit

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)

quoted text in a bigger font size is really disorienting to me

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

quoted text in a bigger font size is really disorienting to me

― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:00 AM (0 seconds ago)

ie

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

wait now it isnt wtf

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

Italicised? Yeah that's because I made this one from swiss.css as the starting point. I read that in a typography book - if you have 12pt normal, italics look smaller, so you should have 13pt italics. I actually really like it.

Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Hello there Hello there Hello there.

Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

hey keith while youre here is there any way to get the original glyloop.mp3 onto ilx and back into http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955

the one on there now is way too slow and doesnt sync with the gifs

heres the original:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/glyloop.mp3

乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

lol

mookieproof, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:02 (twelve years ago)

this is really important

乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)

really really really important

乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)

I understand that, but some things just take time.

Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)

this post was the one that weirded me out, maybe something else happened there: what is going on in your musical life

My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)

Yeah that is weird. It's not the bigger size, it's the letter spacing on the italics, I think. I'll have a look, but will be tomorrow now.

Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:05 (twelve years ago)

Took a gander, but I was disoriented by visited links being the same color as plaintext. :-|

Leeena Dunham (Leee), Thursday, 28 March 2013 01:29 (twelve years ago)

AAAARRGGH! What's happened? How do I change it back? I can't even remember what my stylesheet was, but it's changed and it looks HORRIBLE!

pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:59 (twelve years ago)

blueski-2.css

Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:00 (twelve years ago)

can someone make one that looks like an excel spreadsheet

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:43 (twelve years ago)

thanks Keith!

pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:00 (twelve years ago)

Yeah thanks!

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:16 (twelve years ago)

yeah mine changed all of the sudden too and I hate it it looks like a bad MFA design project

i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

keef, quirk i have noticed - in the swiss stylesheets i cannot see the numbers at the end of each line in this post: POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

can see them fine in e.g. blueski. am using google's "chrome" internet browser.

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:35 (twelve years ago)

actually, i like what you have done here, with blueski3

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:35 (twelve years ago)

per discussion over on (still modless) ILP: is old.css still the stylesheet with the largest image display?

ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

Not sure I follow, Roberto - can you post what does show on the others and what doesn't on Swiss? Will take a look and see if I can sort at some point.

Cheers.

Keith, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:04 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/QYCAjo2.jpg

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:15 (twelve years ago)

Thanks. Weird though - works fine for me. Tried both Swiss and SwissHelvetica.

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:26 (twelve years ago)

Although on a Mac - you're on Windows I think (because of the Franklin Gothic). Not that it really ought to make any kind of difference, but can anyone else on Windows see the same thing?

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:27 (twelve years ago)

yep windows

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:30 (twelve years ago)

Using the page here
POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

Chrome (Version 26.0.1410.64 m)
swiss.css - numbers are missing
swisshelvetica.css - numbers are missing

IE9 (Version 9.0.8112.16421 64-bit Edition)
swiss.css - numbers are there
swisshelvetica.css - numbers are there

Firefox (20.0.1)
swiss.css - numbers are there
swisshelvetica.css - numbers are there

(Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit version)

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Friday, 3 May 2013 12:38 (twelve years ago)

Whoa - thanks for the comprehensive response. How weird though.

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:40 (twelve years ago)

Not sure there's anything I can do about it. It's just a paragraph... Not a stylesheet thing. Guessing there's some bug in Windows Chrome that's screwing up at first sign of a tab character.

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:41 (twelve years ago)

Hang on a sec and I can try it in Win 8...

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Friday, 3 May 2013 12:41 (twelve years ago)


Chrome (Version 26.0.1410.64 m)
swiss.css - numbers are missing
swisshelvetica.css - numbers are missing

IE10 (10.0.9200.16540)
swiss.css - numbers are there
swisshelvetica.css - numbers are there

Win 8 (64 bit)

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Friday, 3 May 2013 12:52 (twelve years ago)

Thanks again, looks like a Chrome (and maybe webkit) issue on Windows.

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:53 (twelve years ago)

crazy old chrome

to be clear, i personally am not fussed, i like swiss but i am enjoying it here on blueski3, so i am not requesting any remedial actions for my own sake, i was just bringing this to the attention on the proper authorities like a responsible citizen

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)

No it's fine... Just don't know what to do about it, as it's very unclear why it's happening!

Keith, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

crimsonhexagon.css is really nice not sure how long its been up but i just noticed it today

ciderpress, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:28 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

'Times New Roman', serif

^ yo what up stet

j., Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:28 (six years ago)

im back to newold after a lengthy fling with crimsonhexagon

ciderpress, Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:32 (six years ago)

kenan dark

― iatee, Sunday, January 30, 2011 6:47 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i use this, and it is the style most similar to dark mode on zing touch

i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:49 (six years ago)

therefore it is the best

i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:49 (six years ago)

i have dark mode on almost everything else i can on my computer but i am so committed to old.css that i leave it blinding white

j., Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:53 (six years ago)

'Times New Roman', serif

^ yo what up stet


You can choose a font from the drop down at the bottom of the style list now, that’s just the first. There should be an option to use your browser font but I wonder if I’ve broken that. Will take a look.

stet, Sunday, 20 October 2019 09:59 (six years ago)


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