Topic: Hey lookie... it's the old forum look! Think I finally got it.. :D  (Read 1154 times)

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atheorhaven

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As anyone who has seen one of my posts since *January* may or may not know... I had a real problem with the new look.  One of the things I really *really* disliked was the stupid white borders around everything.  It was disorienting, it was annoying, it breaks the flow of the words and ideas for me here.  Well, I found a capability in Opera (my web browser) to make use of user style sheets a while back, and last night found a freeware style shet editor with preview ability.  So I spent almost three hours mucking about with the Taldren style sheet until I *finally* got rid of the borders.  The fact that I had to do that on my own is more than a little lame, but after five months, I figured that Taldren wasn't going to bother fixing or addressing the issue that some of us here didn't like the new look, and preferred the old one (which was simply taken away with the old UBBS system).  But at any rate, now that I've finally fixed it, maybe I can finally get rid of the disruption that I get reading messages here.  And I'm putting up the modified style sheet so that people who may also have liked the "Taldren Classic" look can download it and use it.  I'll only state that I have it working in Opera 6 and Opera 7... haven't tried it with IE yet (because I don't use browsers that open an onramp to the Internet to my insides of my computer's OS).  But if others want to try looking at Taldren (and other websites, which can get entertaining!) in the classic look again, here's the link:

http://www.themackiestuff.com/atheorhaven/html/userfiles/tools/Taldren_Classic_css.zip

Screenies of the difference in a sec..


It may not be a whole lot different to some, but it's a whole world of difference to me.  Kind of a Feng Shui thing I think.  
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 pm by atheorhaven »

starforce2

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Re: Hey lookie... it's the old forum look! Think I finally got it.. :D
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2003, 11:37:55 am »
I would simply prefer it if they'd have more than 8 threads on a page, that's really annoying. I couldn't much care about boarders and crap.

James Formo

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Re: Hey lookie... it's the old forum look! Think I finally got it.. :D
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2003, 12:31:49 pm »
Quote:

I'll only state that I have it working in Opera 6 and Opera 7... haven't tried it with IE yet (because I don't use browsers that open an onramp to the Internet to my insides of my computer's OS).  But if others want to try looking at Taldren (and other websites, which can get entertaining!) in the classic look again, here's the link:

http://www.themackiestuff.com/atheorhaven/html/userfiles/tools/Taldren_Classic_css.zip






Hate to burst your bubble on the security of Opera, but I found this article detailing security problems with it.

 web page

just fyi  
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 pm by James Formo »

atheorhaven

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Re: Hey lookie... it's the old forum look! Think I finally got it.. :D
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2003, 01:20:44 pm »
Hate to burst your bubble on the security of Opera, but I found this article detailing security problems with it.
 web page
just fyi    




Thanks for the info James.. but even in the same article, it mentions that Opera is still a lot safer because of the way it does things.  IE hooks right into your OS through Explorer.Exe and Active Desktop, so any exploit in IE can potentially get you right down to the command prompt.. where you can't do that with Opera because it doesn't hook in in that fashion.  It may have some issues, it's certainly not perfect.. but it nicely does the job without the extra issues that IE raises.  *And* now it's solved this problem for me too.. so I'm just totally happy now.