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6 March, 2003: Changes to h2g2
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 6, 2003
I like the plain skin, except it's far too bright... If there was a "?skin=dark", which was identical to the plain skin except with all the colours reversed and images inverted, I'd probably consider moving away from Goo... 
Once "plain" is done, it wouldn't take much work to produce "dark" - whaddya say, Jim? 
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SEF Posted Mar 6, 2003
Remember we still have the GIF anti-aliasing vs transparency problem, Peet, which would ruin new non-white backgrounds.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 6, 2003
It would be a black background, which wouldn't look too bad with the Gooey halos... 
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Jim Lynn Posted Mar 7, 2003
"Once "plain" is done, it wouldn't take much work to produce "dark" - whaddya say, Jim?"
Not much work at all. All the colours are controlled by a CSS stylesheet. I'm toying with making the path to the sylesheet a preference so you can write your own if you want.
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Mar 7, 2003
- that is so good, gonna confuse lots of people with this one 
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 7, 2003
I've added a few little tags to my space...strategically placed for maximum freak-out value! 
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Researcher Ford Posted Mar 7, 2003
the online eyes kinda give me the creeps I feel like they're staring at me...no big deal though I'll get used to it
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 7, 2003
I think they should be made to follow your mouse around the page... Now *that* would be really creepy! 
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Mar 7, 2003
I have combined the with Conversations. What a hoot! 
I am used to the eyes, but at least they dont look from side to side or blink.....(yet)
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 7, 2003
But I still think it would be really if the eyes did look from side to side.
Maybe we need to campaign for a smiley...
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Mar 7, 2003
I am with you on that one what are the chances do you think?! 
s away very quickly before an italic gets 
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SEF Posted Mar 7, 2003
A shifty eyes smiley (or even modified online eyes) would be very easy - just an animated GIF. However, the current official policy is against animated GIFs. Given that ruling, I still don't understand how the overused disco got in. Anyhow I could do shifty eyes in a couple of ways on my space/articles but I doubt I'd be able to get anything past the main server security onto the smiley list or to replace the current online ones.
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Mar 7, 2003
Oh shame, especially since i dont like the disco one. Seems a strange policy, why is that?
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SEF Posted Mar 7, 2003
...because they are annoying! [ie the animated GIFs, not necessarily the policy makers ]
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kow Posted Mar 7, 2003
This is off topic, but none of these new changes, have appeared in the plain skin(apart from spaces under names), is this to keep the skin light for digibox users?
The tag works, but newbies don't seem to like it
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 7, 2003
Actually, you seem to be *on* topic for the original topic of the conversation!
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- 62: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 6, 2003)
- 63: SEF (Mar 6, 2003)
- 64: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 6, 2003)
- 65: Jim Lynn (Mar 7, 2003)
- 66: SEF (Mar 7, 2003)
- 67: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Mar 7, 2003)
- 68: Lady Scott (Mar 7, 2003)
- 69: Researcher Ford (Mar 7, 2003)
- 70: Lady Scott (Mar 7, 2003)
- 71: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Mar 7, 2003)
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- 73: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Mar 7, 2003)
- 74: SEF (Mar 7, 2003)
- 75: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Mar 7, 2003)
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- 79: Lady Scott (Mar 7, 2003)
- 80: kow (Mar 7, 2003)
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