Jul -- General Chat: For those who are too dumb to read announcements

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Posted on 12-12-07 07:45:47 AM

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	Hopefully I wasn't one of the opacity abusers... Maybe I will make my own layout someday... lacking the skills atm. ____________________ A for ale! B for beer! C for cans of beer!

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Posted on 12-12-07 08:27:06 AM (last edited by Neko54123 at 12-12-07 05:28 AM)

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If you don't even know how to use it, I doubt you were one of the abusers. I don't recall your layouts ever being transparent anyway.

Those of you that were abusing it need to keep two things in mind when designing layouts: courtesy and common sense.

Courtesy: Believe it or not, there are still some people who browse the Internet on computers made a decade ago (I was one of them for many years). Web browsers--especially Firefox--tend to run very slowly when viewing pages with lots of unnecessary special effects. Opacity is very CPU-intensive and can reduce sub-1GHz machines to a painful crawl.

Common sense: This is a message board, and as such, is primarily intended to be used for the sharing of text messages. There's nothing wrong with sprucing up your text a bit, but please keep in mind that readability is the #1 priority. Tiny/extra-fancy fonts (especially fonts that might not exist on other machines), clashing/blending text and background colors, and scroll bars all detract from a post's readability, and what's the point in posting if people can't read your text?

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Posted on 12-12-07 10:21:46 AM

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Ω > U

That's like GONADS in Decline of Video Gaming 2.

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Posted on 12-12-07 12:23:38 PM

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	I have no layout making skills so meh. I dont think it was me though because I was pretty sure that my layout was above 75 opacity. if not, hurt me. ____________________ Currently working on Touhou 6 Extra Stage. DERN YOU FLANDRE!!!

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Posted on 12-12-07 12:59:27 PM

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Or you can just not use a layout.

All the cool kids are doing it.

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Posted on 12-12-07 02:17:03 PM

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Originally posted by Electrometer Prime
I have no layout making skills so meh.

Same here, nor do I have the time to learn.

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Posted on 12-12-07 02:19:04 PM (last edited by The Red Snifit at 12-12-07 11:20 AM)

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Originally posted by Kyargu
Or you can just not use a layout.

All the cool kids are doing it.

*The Red Snifit agrees.*
In fact...
*Turns everybody cool by turning off layouts*
It looks better that way.

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Posted on 12-12-07 03:38:43 PM

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agrees I have everybody's layouts off, but not because it looks cool. Some layouts break IE7. Which is crap anyways. Maybe I should use Firefox. D: ____________________ Heaven queen, carry me away from all pain. All the same take me away, we're dead to the world.

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Posted on 12-12-07 03:40:13 PM

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Ω > U

Originally posted by Spontaneous Madness
...Maybe I should use Firefox. D:

At the very least, Opera.

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Posted on 12-12-07 04:10:35 PM

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Drag's Post #479

I leave layouts on auto-updating. This was mostly for the users who liked to host CSS files on crappy servers that were down 99.9% of the time.

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Posted on 12-12-07 04:19:56 PM

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Well, I took the switch, and now I can see layouts! I'm using Firefox now. Also, I don't think my layout uses opacity... Off-topic: WTF? Why are the Google ads on this thread about Genital herpes and HIV? ____________________ Heaven queen, carry me away from all pain. All the same take me away, we're dead to the world.

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Posted on 12-12-07 05:23:36 PM (last edited by HyperHacker at 12-12-07 02:24 PM)

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Jul - Post #1784 - 12-12-07 12:23:36pm

Because bad layouts are made of fail and AIDS?

Mine is pre-blended so meh.

Although I find it slightly amusing how the filter decapitalizes as well, making the announcement look funny.

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Posted on 12-12-07 06:14:51 PM (last edited by Tyty210 at 12-12-07 03:15 PM)

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heh, mine was only using 90% opacity, and with it's colors it was incredibly difficult to tell. Hand made too.

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Posted on 12-12-07 06:15:19 PM

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Originally posted by Tyty210
heh, mine was only using 90% opacity, and with it's colors it is incredibly difficult to tell. Hand made too.

A good question, then: if it was impossible to tell, why do it in the first place?

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Posted on 12-12-07 06:17:11 PM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
Originally posted by Tyty210
heh, mine was only using 90% opacity, and with it's colors it is incredibly difficult to tell. Hand made too.

A good question, then: if it was impossible to tell, why do it in the first place?

When it was red you could tell by looking closely. I just never took it out.

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Posted on 12-12-07 06:18:10 PM

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12-12-07 12:18:10pm 882 posts 162 days
Pft, Opacity. I can make whatever layout I want without even touching it. Heck, if I wanted to get fancy, I'd make some PHP-picture thingies and link 'em all up here. But that might eat my bandwidth. Anyway, I was going to mention that I managed to raise the temperature of my CPU by 6 degrees celsius just by rapidly scrolling up and down a page where opacity layouts were being used. Blech. ____________________
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Posted on 12-12-07 06:46:01 PM (last edited by OoBurns at 12-12-07 03:46 PM)

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If you want opacity, go with PNGs.

It's not your fault that some people still use IE6.

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Posted on 12-12-07 09:47:12 PM

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Originally posted by Ω Hiryuu
That's like GONADS in Decline of Video Gaming 2.

I never got that.

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Posted on 12-12-07 11:21:59 PM

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Jul - Post #1795 - 12-12-07 06:21:59pm

Originally posted by NightKev
Originally posted by Ω Hiryuu
That's like GONADS in Decline of Video Gaming 2.
I never got that.

Look it up.

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