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| Tarale Member Level: 56      Posts: 767/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gunstar GreenBecause you need to know how specifically Internet Exploder is being a stupid vulnerability monster in order to avoid its problems. Otherwise, yes, I agree, IE is a piece of shit. Every version. I'm no more impressed with IE7 and IE8 than I am with IE6, although thankfully they fight me less when it comes to CSS and PNG alpha transparency. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 768/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Yeah, I thought that was a bit weird too, although it does still give me warnings about bunches of deprecated tags, like <center> and all of that, it's not flagging them as outright validation failures, which is nice.
Making the board valid code, one way or another, is a good project to take on. And who knows, perhaps it might limit some of the bug reports you guys receive. I doubt we really have anyone on the forum that requires any specific accessibility stuff, but perhaps that could also be because we have our doors closed to some of them… --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 769/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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I just think it's a pain-in-the-arse feature for something few people would actually use. I am sure Xkeeper's time could be used a lot better.
A lot of work goes into one layout, let alone several. That's even more possibility of stylesheets failing (or having stylesheet bloat in your profile) than just having one too. I could be wrong, but I also imagine the novelty of this would wear off fairly quickly due to the work required on behalf of the individual. There'd be a handful that would be willing to do it, but I don't think everyone would. I think Xkeeper's time could be used a lot better developing different features.  --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 770/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by TheKinoko IE (all versions) is a piece of shit. That said, the opacity property is another thing that needs to be used very carefully. *sigh* --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 771/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Kyargu *facepalm* --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 772/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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I'd love a nice new hard drive. We have a couple of 200GB drives lying around in external caddies, but they are now quite old and I don't trust them as far as I can throw them.
We went and bought a 1.5TB drive the other day, and it had the click of death almost immediately. So we got a replacement, which had the same problem. Very loud, very repetitive clicking, very abnormal. And by loud, I mean "hear it across the other side of the room, clearly" loud. We have come to the conclusion there is a bad batch or manufacturer fault with the 1.5TB Seagate desktop drives. Someone on their forums that was trying to suggest that was also getting in all kinds of shit with the Seagate PR Moderator Nazi. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 773/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Yeah, that contrast is a bit "vibey"; not enough of a difference in luminosity. It can actually hurt some people's eyes (like mine).
Give this tool a go to find something a little more suited with regards to luminosity. It is your friend and it is awesome, and it will ensure you always make a layout or website that is readable for everyone: Colour Contrast Analyser It's an excellent tool, and it is designed with accessibility standards in mind. It's actually required-use in any web development project where readability and accessibility is needed—and given you want us to read your posts (I assume), you're best to give it a go --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 774/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn It's more that the blue text needs to be lighter. It doesn't have enough contrast with the black, so it causes this "vibey" sensation with the eyes where they can't quite focus on the text properly. Check it out with that Colour Contrast Analyser. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 775/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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I'm on my Mac (my Windows computer blew up last week) so I can't use the Colour Contrast Analyser until I get an appropriate VM set up again, but using a different analysis tool, try #7A99FF against black.
That should pass. Colour Schemer Studio doesn't give me the luminosity pass ratios, but it still tells me if something passes or doesn't --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 776/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn It's better, but not enough. Ran it through Colour Schemer Studio on the Mac and it doesn't pass the luminosity contrast. It will take me a few hours to install Windows on a VM to get exact values, so it might be quicker for you to try Colour Contrast Analyser yourself in the meantime. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 777/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn Yeah, it's best not to design just for you.  There may be people with older (or differently configured) monitors, vision problems, colour blindness, etc, trying to read your posts. As I get older I find my biological sensitivity to blues in particular deteriorating. I've found I simply cannot read blue neon signs either; they make my eyes hurt so severely I get an instant headache. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 778/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn It has to do with the luminosity; the relative quantity of light emitted or reflected of the text and their background. Darker blues don't emit a lot of light, so they don't stand themselves apart enough from black. Conversely we can look at colours that emit lots of light: a bright sunny yellow, for instance, wouldn't stand out much enough from white to be readable. Both yellow and white have very high luminosity values. For text to be readable against a chosen background, it needs to have a big enough difference between luminosity values. Same goes for high-saturation red and high-saturation blue together. When they both emit the same amount of light you get this visual strobing effect with your eyes. And then you get horrible effects like this one where while the colours are very different, the luminosity is too close and oh god your eyes your eyes your eyes AAARRRGHHHHH.... and it would be even worse if I made the text smaller!! P.S. do not stare at this box too long. And sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude either. I'd love to show you what I mean with the Colour Contrast Analyser with some screenshots, but I'm 0% through copying Windows XP files in VirtualBox.  --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 779/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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I wish they'd invented slapping over TCP/IP by now…
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 780/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn That passes.  And it is very legible.And yes, you probably do have good eyes at your age. I had very good vision till I was about 25, then I got glasses for the first time. I am now short sighted and I hate this blue neon sign they have near my old place because it makes me think my brain is going to explode a la Scanners… Stupid getting older! --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 781/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Gwendolyn I turn 29 on the 10th December. AHHHHH HOLY HELL IT'S TOO CLOSE TO THIRTY KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME *hugs cat and rocks back and forth* --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 782/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Can someone tell me why he's not banned for pulling this shit?
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 783/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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YOUUUUU'LL GET OLD TOOOOO ONE DAYYYYY!!!!!
LOL, but yeah, I'm at the age where I'm only just starting to get some vision quirks. I can still see (mostly) very well though. I am not yet to the point where I need the screen resolution to be 800x600 and all text to be 12pt or above for me to read it --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 784/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Originally posted by Acmlm The fun thing about colour contrast is also that people biologically are less sensitive to blue anyway. We're actually the most sensitive to colours at the green end of the spectrum (I guess so we know know what stuff is OK to eat and what's not). The human eye and brain can see and differentiate between more greens than we can any other colour. Blue (aside from the sky and its reflection) doesn't appear a lot within nature and we're far less sensitive to it. I suppose that's why it's one of the first colours I've found problematic at certain luminosity values. --------------------
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 785/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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I never understood the desire to fit in with a community by annoying the piss out of it.
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| Tarale Member Level: 56 Posts: 786/897 EXP: 1380842 For next: 17334 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 1741 days Last activity: 1726 days |
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Do you know what the server's default encoding is?
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