I'm looking at nodesWithinDays because I'd really like to be able to alternate colors sorta how we do for the chatterbox. However, I see we set each row's class to "node-from-#####" based on who wrote what. I'm proposing that we change it such that alternating rows get the "highlight" class, and the actual td's get the node-from-##### class. This may break the expectations of a few odd people, but I don't see how we can do background colours any other way.

Instead of just submitting such a patch, I would at least like to gauge the acceptableness of this to both the users at large, and the gods who would apply it. Something tells me not to bother, although I have to admit that being able to tell who wrote what really easily has been bothering me for quite some time, especially when some of the node titles are really long. And narrowing the width of my browser just for the Newest Nodes page seems a bit annoying as well.

In reply to Hilighting Newest Nodes by Tanktalus

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