Cat on a blue shed roof

[triskellian]

Which title is utterly irrelevant to the contents of this post, but there he was, being a cat on a blue shed roof, and how could I resist? (No, I don't know why our shed roof is blue, either.)

I made some good progress last night on my new project: improving my CSS skills. I've been using stylesheets for text formatting for years, and never quite got around to learning how to do anything else with them, but after a couple of hours of reading and playing, I'm most of the way towards the layout I'm planning. It's pretty cool to look at an HTML file containing nothing but text and structural markup, and then look at the way that file is displayed, with colours and boxes and fonts ;-)

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

OK, so how do I change the text? My screen is 1280x1024, and "small 'n' faint" doesn't really do it for me personally.

One note on that subject - when I do adjust my browser's default text size, the "reply" title changes size and nothing else does. This suggests to me that there's an attribute somewhere you haven't sized.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

They haven't sized, even.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Bugger! What ate that reply I'd carefully just typed?

I haven't noticed the Reply title changing size (unless you mean the piece of text just above this "post a reply" box I'm currently typing in), but certainly nothing else changes size, which is rather unpleasant of them.

Mozilla's minimum font size option works (which is a godsend when reading GamesDomain at work), as does its Text Zoom option (also known as ctrl + ).

A quick look at the stylesheet reveals such nastiness as:

body { background-color: #ffffff;
       margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
       margin-right: 0px;
       font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
       font-size: 11px;
       color: #8f8f8f;
}

Mmm. Yes, sizing the fonts in pixels. That's a good idea. Not!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

After much hunting around, I can neatly give up researching this problem, as I've found out why this is a problem:

Component is less than 4 weeks old, and it's announcement does ask for feedback.

[triskellian]

Odd. My screen is bigger than that (1400x1050)* and the text is a perfectly sensible size. I mean, it's little, but it's not that little.

Anyway, I'm just trying this style on. I'm not sure how much I like it, so I might switch to something else. I think I'm doomed to be disappointed until they finish S2, though, because I want styled comments pages (S2) with code-level customisation (which AFAIK is still only available in S1) <sigh>

*My screen's bigger than your screen! Ner-ner-ne-ner-ner! ;-)