FreeRepublic: Changes in Style Sheets

[John Robinson]

Attention those with custom style sheets: you will want to revisit your settings to enter a URL to your style sheet; you can now use a style sheet saved on your local computer, or choose one of the predefined style sheets I have made available.

[Vermonter]

Got it!. I used a style sheet I saved when you first started posting about them, and saved it in a text file. I dragged the text file to the browser, copied the URL and pasted it into the style sheet location... oila! It works.

Now, is there an option somewhere to select that pager? or do I have to save the URL you provided?

Thanks!

[John Robinson]

Save the URL; there will be a link to it somewhere eventually, I don't know when.

[Vermonter]

WIll do, thanks!

[fnord]

bump for future playing around with

[technochick99]

me too

[fnord]

well, you made mine beep, so ... beep!

John, this feature is the coolest thing; I hope you make it tweakaable :-)

[steveegg]

Must be a PC thing; they do work after a fashion on my Winblown version of Nutscape 4.77, though with some display problems. Example; with the marble version, I see the tan grit instead of the gray grit in the header (article source/date/author line and all comment/posted by lines) Also, the text formatting doesn't happen. Both problems are due to NS 4.x's refusal to accept a style definition within a TABLE tag. There is a workaround that I have managed to test successfully in NS 4.77/Win (didn't get to test in IE6/Mozilla/NS6, though it shouldn't do anything adverse to either); wrap the header table inside of a <DIV fr_header> tag.

Also, the reply "boxes" are not of a uniform width in at least the Windows version of NS 4.7; I did have a workaround for that as well, though I'll have to plow through my stash of CSS files to find the right fix (probably do that tomorrow).

I also haven't tracked down the fatal killing of certain threads where part of the thread is not displayed. 'Tis a problem with any style sheet, including my custom one. While I'm on that, I take it the edit-style upload page is non-functional, as I now have to read my custom sheet off my personal site for both Netscape 4.x and Mozilla (and NS6). For some reason, IE still allows me to read my local copy.

[Don Joe]

Would it be possible to add an option to self-search to only return posts to me rather than posts to and from me?

[steveegg]

Hrm. I must be having terrible luck then, I can't get Netscape nor Opera to display those last two style sheets. The only thing which takes is the BODY background, which completely trashes everything else.

Which version (including OS) of Nutscape are you trying this on (I think you mentioned it before, but I'm forgetful-VBG)?

[umbagi]

"You'll really like this" ...

Oooooo! This is great.

John, I think the Ritalin prescription said "1 every 4 hours," not "4 every hour" ...

Take a break!

umbagi

[John Robinson]

Netscape® Communicator 4.7
Microsoft Windows 2000
5.00.2195
Service Pack 2

[GOPmember]

Using a CSS from my webpage works fine when reading posts, but is it possible to have the CSS activated on the "Latest Posts/Latest Articles" screens? (Short of setting global accessiblity options for IE, that is).

[John Robinson]

And,

Opera 5.12 Build 932

[John Robinson]

Yeah, it will be there in latest posts at a later time.

[steveegg]

Thanks, John. Don't mind that my posts are a bit out of order; just testing things in multiple browsers. Will have to give you my personal style sheet to toy around with (it's almost a mature product, though 100%-width tables do bust the right margin in IE6, and the NS 4.x-specific bugs are not addressable from my end).

[OldFriend]

Thanxamillion!

[John Robinson]

I'm viewing the header table wrapped in a div now and am suffering the table/margin bug of MSIE. That's not going to work.

Do you think it's possible to do away with the tables and use relative positioning? (If one wants columns)

[steveegg]

Odd. Which subset of 4.7? I'm running 4.77 on WinME (all Win32 OSes use the same version build), and get the intermittent incomplete thread display (can't upgrade to 4.78 for some odd reason). IIRC, 4.78 does finish displaying threads, but with a broken display at the point where 4.77 would break.

Will have to try updating to 4.78 again tomorrow.

[steveegg]

It's worth a try. Will stop back in about an hour.

[Vermonter]

Is there any significance to the '^' after every poster's name in a reply?