Help with S2 styles

[triskellian]

cuthbertcross says my journal displays as black-on-black for her. For me it's a perfectly sensible, fairly minimal, black-on-white.

It's the style called 'A sturdy gesture' under the S2 style system, and it's in the default theme (plain black and white), although now I've prodded it a bit more, it turns out that the 'preview' page shows it with solid black title boxes at the top of each entry box, and I don't seem to have that, but still.

Anyone got any ideas why my journal doesn't like cuthbertcross?

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

All the S2 styles are pretty broken at the moment, I wouldn't advise anyone to use them.

Your journal for me reads as black on white, but the formatting is awful, it's impossible to tell which comments are response to which (except by context) and half the screen is taken up by a sidebar which is of no use at all to persons other than you (compare with old-style, which has a very useful sidebar of about half the width).

That and the fact that comments don't seem to have delete buttons ! Annoying if you make a typo.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Looks alright to me, under NS7. If I bring my window down to a small size (say 640x480), then I start having difficulties, because of the relatively large font. But the indentation's perfectly clear.

Looks ok under IE 6 as well.

I'm still waiting on component to get the font sizes right. In the meantime, I'm still using "large" to bring it up to a reasonable number of pixels.

[triskellian]

Argh. I had no idea. On my screen, the sidebar is about the same size as the one on the old-style Punquin, leaving plenty of space for comments, and the formatting is all nice and plain. I hadn't noticed the lack of delete buttons, either (I usually use preview) - that's really annoying!

Damnit. Time to change back, I suppose. And I really liked having styled comments pages and the ability to show my own user pics for each entry. Grr.

Thanks for the feedback, anyway!

[chrisvenus]

One of the things that not many people seem to realise is that you can (or used to be able to) put an override in the header and thus link to an external stylesheet. From that point on there are obviously hundereds of whizzy shiny things that you can do to make the page look vastly better, including, I would assume, trying to override their stylesheets font sizes.

I should disclaim that I've not played with LJ layout for a very long time and not at all with S2 so I may be talking crap. :)

As for the original question, I would guess it is a case of a browser supporting or not supporting a particular piece of style information somewhere and thus rendering differently. That's usually the first bet on pages rendering differently for different people.

[triskellian]

That was on S1. On S2 the whole customise process is different, and the non-GUI bits aren't in HTML, IIRC, so I haven't yet got round to working out how to get it to do what I want.

Anyway, I'm now using Punquin Elegant, although still in S2. Any better, bateluer and cuthbertcross?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for others, but way more readable on my particular config.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

yep, it's fab, I can read you now.
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