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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to AB
Re: De-emphasizing quoted text in forum threads I don't use the default theme. I use the Canadian theme and I don't want to use any other theme. I love the Canadian theme. The only other one I really like is the default theme.
The Canadian theme produces this very difficult to read yellow background with gray font. I was miserable here until OZO IMed me with the fix. Asking me to take a photo of a forum page with the new, hard to read quotes and post it wouldn't prove to Justin the problem that I have (because it is my eyes that have the problem not his) so I didn't see the point in what seemed to be a useless exercise and I stopped reading this thread. Thus, I didn't know that OZO had posted the fix until he IMed me tonite.
For the record anyone using Fx or SeaMonkey needs to first shut down the browser. Then navigate to their Profile, go to the Chrome folder, create a usercontent.css file if you don't already have one and then use notepad to copy the file Ozo has provided. If you use the third file, the result is to make the forum pages look just like before. Wonderful! 
I just wonder why Justin couldn't have provided this tip for us who have been suffering from this change. Is it only default and Canadian theme users who had this change forced on them? You say that after a day or so you no longer saw the change? Maybe Justin just figured that those of us using the default and Canadian themes who were really bothered by this problem should just use another theme? Why are only these two themes affected by this change? I thought the change was for all themes. I didn't try any other themes because the only two I love are default and Canadian and they are both really affected. I'm really grateful to Ozo for the help as now I can read here again without difficulty and keep my beloved Canadian theme or use the default theme again if I tire someday of the Canadian theme.
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| FireFox (overriding your theme setting locally) said by Mele20:Thus, I didn't know that OZO had posted the fix until he IMed me tonite. For the record anyone using Fx or SeaMonkey needs to first shut down the browser. Then navigate to their Profile, go to the Chrome folder, create a usercontent.css file if you don't already have one and then use notepad to copy the file Ozo has provided. If you use the third file, the result is to make the forum pages look just like before. Wonderful! FWIW OZO also PMed me about overriding theme visuals. And since I also use FireFox, I was looking for a solution to translate his IE instructions info something that works in FireFox. And my "solution" was a little different than yours.
What I did was look around for FireFox info on CSS, and I found/installed the "Stylish" ( »addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 ) FireFox extension. I then used Stylish to install the *.css settings (that OZO helped me with) for the domain "dslreports.com". By using the Stylish extension, I can control which pages (in this case all pages from the dslreports.com domain) get the CSS changes, instead of applying the CSS changes to all web pages period (like your approach does).
Now, that said, I really wish DSLR would make these theme color decisions user configurable, so we don't have to write our own CSS changes to our browsers (which is more of a PITA than it really should be) to override color settings that cause eye strain.
Obviously Justin likes the color/theme changes. However, it's also clear that those changes hurt the eyes of some of us. And that really shouldn't be much of a surprise for those of us who have studied ergonomics, as yellow is a "hot color" that draws the eyes attention to it. As such, it is uncomfortable to some people (myself included) to have yellow as a "background color" (in this case, the background color of quoted text), as that yellow "background" can draw the eyes attention to it (causing extra eye strain)... | |
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