Hilighting Newest Nodes

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.

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Re: Hilighting Newest Nodes by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 31, 2006 at 10:34 UTC
I would just like to point out that changes like that would not mean a thing to my viewing pleasure, since I set my browser to use my color set. I like a black background with a dark orange text and blue/red links. It looks similar to the original monitors from back 30 years ago. It does play havoc on some javascript menus, but it is way easier on my eyes, when reading html all day. White backgrounds give me eyestrain. It also "filters out" the "visual wham-factor" that sites try to hit you with, and just lets thru the true content. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Hilighting Newest Nodes by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 17, 2006 at 18:09 UTC
Well, it appears not everybody was happy with the change wrought by Hilighting Newest Nodes (implemented). While I found it only slightly surprising, I believe there's a larger issue which ought to be addressed. Namely – that we should probably be making an effort towards consistency in how alternating rows are tagged in all sections of the site. Now NN does it one way, CB/Inbox does it a similar way, and various nodelets do it other ways. Personally, I think the odd-row/even-row tag scheme is the most generic. (At least as long we're content to only consider the two-row alternating case.) In any case, if a style tag like `highlight` is going to be used in some section of the site where it previously wasn't, then probably it shouldn't have a default value supplied by the site. We're building the house of the future together.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Hilighting Newest Nodes by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 18, 2006 at 11:03 UTC
One thing that I think should happen on site is that we should do a CSS/markup cleanup in a big batch. Break stuff once on a grand scale, but introduce a cleanup at the same time. A _lot_ of the css support here is gratuitous, and I say that as the person 90% responsible. A lot of the stuff here should be done via relative selectors instead of through the gazillion class names we have. One place in particular i intend to do this is the RAT. A ridiculous chunk of that page is unnecessary span tags. Anyway, I think its something thats worth thinking about more. It would be nice to see some analysis and design done on this subject so that the pmdevils have something to work toward. There is also petruchios secret world.... (Speak to him about it). --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re^3: Hilighting Newest Nodes by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 18, 2006 at 14:59 UTC
There is also petruchios secret world... Yeah.... `I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness.` We're building the house of the future together.	[reply]