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NathanBales
Starting Member

9 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-01 : 14:48:38

One of the colors picked for the forum is a non-standard CSS color, and shows up as black in Gecko based browsers (And if I remember its also different in Opera based browsers) If you switch to a HEX color value instead that wont happen.

The violating color in this case is navyblue, which shows up as a light blue in IE, a dark blue in Opera (I think) and as black in Gecko/Mozilla/Netscape.

The Enigma
Posting Yak Master

179 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-01 : 15:15:05

Does anybody use browsers other than IE ?? I am amazed ;)

Attitude is everything

{The Enigma}

NathanBales
Starting Member

9 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-01 : 16:25:22

lol, sure, Mozilla has a following.

The HEX code for the intended color is #A0B0E0

graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer

4149 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-01 : 17:13:03

Shouldn't this be posted as a bug in the Mozilla/Gecko/etc forums?

And since I understand the reality of that making a difference I'll see what I can't to do fix Snitz. However, there is some disagreement about which hex value to use. Check out this thread: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30879 and tell me which hex value to use.

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NathanBales
Starting Member

9 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-01 : 17:38:29

Hi graz. The proper HEX is #A0B0E0 (That is the HEX for the color IE renders 'navyblue' as)

And as far as I know this is actually an IE bug, not a Mozilla bug. Its one of those cases where a bug became a feature and everyone else copied it to make their browsers 'compatable' with IE instead of with the w3c standards.

I was a moderator over at snitz for quite some time, so I answered this question many times

#9FAFDF as mentioned in the other thread, is virtually the same shade as A0B0E0. I don't think you could tell the difference with the nakid eye, so it doesn't really matter which it is.

Doug G
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

331 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-02 : 09:59:23

Hi Nathan

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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer

4149 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-02 : 10:42:03

Nathan & Doug,

So is this as easy as updating the color in the admin page from "navyblue" to the appropriate hex code or do I need to do a search and replace in the source code?

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NathanBales
Starting Member

9 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-02 : 19:51:48

Yeah, you can do it in the admin panel, I think the pound symbol is optional.

Wassup Doug

graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer

4149 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-03 : 00:17:25

Does that work any better?

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byrmol
Shed Building SQL Farmer

1591 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-03 : 00:22:43

Well as a colour-blind individual who uses Opera this is all a mute point.

Graz, can you make SQLTeam braille compliant?

DavidM

"SQL-3 is an abomination.."

graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer

4149 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-03 : 00:28:33

With a reverse touch screen?

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byrmol
Shed Building SQL Farmer

1591 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-03 : 00:29:10

That's the spirit graz! Next week perhaps?

DavidM

"SQL-3 is an abomination.."

mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge

1456 Posts

Posted - 2003-12-03 : 02:05:56

Woohoo!! Snitz is now 100% compatible with Mozilla!

Tabbed browsing rules!!!!