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Re: Can we get the old font back?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:29:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Schilling wrote:
> For messages posted in "Plain Text" format, the font that used to be used in the
> web interface was a nice looking san serif font. Now that FTX has been enabled
> as a possibility, all the Plain Text posts are being displayed in an ugly
> monospaced font. Can we get our nice font back for Plain Text posts please? I
> don't think it is necessary to distinguish FTX and Plain Text posts by the font
> they use. Ideally you shouldn't be able to tell the difference unless the FTX
> post uses actual formatting codes.
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> David Schilling
I like plain text in courier (monospaced) because it lets you see ascii art
without distortion. However that need is very rare, and there's such an easy way
(view raw) to achieve it, in the rare cases where it is needed... so I agree
with David, can we have the smaller sans serif font back for plain text?
Maybe some other mechanism to show you that the post is FTX could be used if it
were important? A border? A little image (ala "FTX powered!" or something like
that) in the header somewhere?
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) It shouldn't be that hard just to apply a simple javascript code to change the font. Of course, you could redirect it to CGI script that sets a cookie, etc.etc, but really all you would need to do was create a javascript code that would swap a (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| For messages posted in "Plain Text" format, the font that used to be used in the web interface was a nice looking san serif font. Now that FTX has been enabled as a possibility, all the Plain Text posts are being displayed in an ugly monospaced (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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