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    colors of rating digits —Larry Pieniazek
   In the traffic report/page "shades of red" currently show how hot the article count is, that is, how recent the 38 posts to off-topic.pun in the last 24 hours actually are. In the list of articles you get when you drill in there, "shades of red" (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: colors of rating digits —Richard Franks
     (...) The red looks nice though :) Green/Black? (...) Do you mean like a set of features/faq/help combination page, with links from all over LUGNET to it, and all indexed nicely, perhaps with a spiffy search engine on top too? <insert quick (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
    
         Re: colors of rating digits —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) Works for me. Don't forget the color blind, though... (...) Yes! Didn't you sort of have a proto of something like that up before? ++Lar (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: colors of rating digits —Richard Franks
      (...) Urm, yes, it should have read <insert quick prototype example here, if I wasn't too braindead to remember that I'd already done one ;)> (URL) Although what I was thinking of tonight was a higher level to that, more structured, easier to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
     
          Re: colors of rating digits —Larry Pieniazek
      In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes: <Lar asked about some sort of summary of what features did what, and where issues were at> (...) Just as it is now, it's already useful. Even if you are not 100% up to date and even if you're not (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: colors of rating digits —Richard Franks
      (...) Thanks! I would happily contribute time to such a page, but I really don't want to step on Todds toes - I get the feeling that generally, if something isn't mentioned it isn't because Todd hasn't thought about it, but rather he's thought about (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
    
         Re: colors of rating digits —Todd Lehman
     (...) Green was actually the first color we tried. But even mid-green is very hard to read on white, since it is the second brightest of the four primaries. Blue would be great, except it's too ingrained as a link color. But through CSS, it ought to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: colors of rating digits —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) I'll bite, what's CSS? I sense I may have been asleep when this was discussed... PS I discovered that I can rate something, and just press the followup icon instead of pressing the rate button, then the follow up. Better yet, I found that I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
    
         Re: colors of rating digits —Todd Lehman
     (...) CSS = Cascading Style Sheets. Most importantly in this context, finer control over fonts. Through CSS (if your browser supports it, and I hear that MSIE5 has *excellent* CSS support) you can actually make a .css file which overrides behavior (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: colors of rating digits —John Matthews
     hmmm, I am not seeing *any* colors with my newsreader... :) John Matthews Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:Fs2BFB.3GD@lugnet.com... (...) article (...) show (...) using (...) to get (...) to (...) to (...) code." (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: colors of rating digits —Todd Lehman
   (...) Currently in some of the latter stages of coding the doc system. :) --Todd (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
 

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