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Shannock9 Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1396 Credit: 634,964 RAC: 0 |
When I first logged on and it was all dark, my reaction was "who died?" As others have said, "Slate" is a step backwards in readability. Standard triumph of form over function. Where is the option to revert to Classic please? |
Jeff Buck Send message Joined: 11 Feb 00 Posts: 1441 Credit: 148,764,870 RAC: 0 |
"Slate" seems to be little different from my school days in the '50s and '60s, when white chalk on a black slate slab was the standard. A more suitable name for it today might be "Archaic". |
Mithotar Send message Joined: 11 Apr 01 Posts: 88 Credit: 66,037,385 RAC: 50 |
Not a fan of this color scheme............while it might be fine on a tiny screen - it is depressingly dark on my 24" LCD......................the layout is ok ....the color(s) not so much |
*Viking* Send message Joined: 2 Nov 03 Posts: 17 Credit: 1,051,900 RAC: 1 |
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JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
We changed the SETI@home web site to use Twitter Bootstrap, a CSS toolkit. This makes the site usable on small displays, and lets us use color schemes developed by other people (this one is called Slate). More usuable on small displays? My windows phone displayed just fine and I used it to adjust jobs on my machines with ease. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
After inverting all the colours on this site it's actually very readable now and no longer giving me headaches. :-) But I shouldn't of had to do that. Cheers. |
petri33 Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 |
Hi, The dark appearance is bad for my eyes. It makes the pupils of my eyes open up and the vision gets blurred. With the new colour scheme I need glasses to read the forums and stats. 1) I'd like to have an option somewhere to select permanently an other (brighter) scheme.. 2) The valid tasks (and pending/invalid/err) page has Application column. It displays "SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)" divided in two lines no matter how big my screen is or how small I set the font. I'd like to have it displayed as one line when there is horizontal space available. To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Well looks like the complaints from the peanut gallery fell on attentive ears or something. SSP now reconfigured to be readable finally. I think I can get used to the colors. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
marsinph Send message Joined: 7 Apr 01 Posts: 172 Credit: 23,823,824 RAC: 0 |
Like the most, i dislike this dark color. I had no any problem to display on my Windows smartphone (2.5in). |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
Golden rule of development is broken. If you add new feature allow opt out from it ! If you added new color scheme - make choice available to revert to old one. In particular, white on gray is BAD choice. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
"This new Boinc dress look good on me.. ...yes dear, your eyesight is perfect" Vainty has always been a b*tch! |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
As an old typographer I like black fonts on white pages, Times New Roman. Tullio |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Another potential annoyance that I'm seeing is that all page titles are now prefixed with "SETI@home:". That means that the more tabs you have open at one time, the more difficult it is to figure out which tab is which, unless you hover your mouse for a second or two to get a popup hint.I think that's always been the case - the page source looks the same on non-Bootstrap project web pages. But now you mention it, the pop-up on my team message board page reads: SETI@home: Team message board for <a href=team_display.php?teamid=145273>Raccoon Lovers</a> - I don't remember the anchor url being visible before. |
Zeus Fab3r Send message Joined: 17 Jan 01 Posts: 649 Credit: 275,335,635 RAC: 597 |
Golden rule of development is broken. +1 Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿ |
Cameron Send message Joined: 27 Nov 02 Posts: 110 Credit: 5,082,471 RAC: 17 |
When did this sharp crisp flat grey Microsoft 10 form theme-y presentation become trendy. Yes Server status is difficult to read (particluarly disabled sevices) Science Status and the unchanged Data Distrabution at least remains on the old clear white background) Would like to see a dish back but the home page banner is an improvement. |
Shaggie76 Send message Joined: 9 Oct 09 Posts: 282 Credit: 271,858,118 RAC: 196 |
Thank you for the quick fix on topic titles, though! |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
@David The menu item for server status page points to https link. The page itself links to custom.css and sah_logo_wb.png over http. These days browser don't necessarily retrieve content over insecure connections when the page is served over secure connection. You should leave the protocol out so that browsers can choose the same protocol that was used for the page. Also, the links to BOINC main page and addons are over http. Maybe they should be protocol-less or https to keep using the same level of security. |
Jeff Buck Send message Joined: 11 Feb 00 Posts: 1441 Credit: 148,764,870 RAC: 0 |
Another potential annoyance that I'm seeing is that all page titles are now prefixed with "SETI@home:". That means that the more tabs you have open at one time, the more difficult it is to figure out which tab is which, unless you hover your mouse for a second or two to get a popup hint.I think that's always been the case - the page source looks the same on non-Bootstrap project web pages. Just as an example, the source for a WU detail page from yesterday morning starts out: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head> <title>Workunit 2310440997</title> <link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/main.css" media="all"> <link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/white.css"> <link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" title="SETI@home RSS 2.0" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php"> </head> By last evening, the same page started with: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>SETI@home: Workunit 2310440997</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://setiathome.berkeley.edu//bootstrap.min.css" media="all"> <link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" title="SETI@home RSS 2.0" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php"> </head> |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
I really like the new site. The change-up in color is a refreshing break from the boring black text on white background (I was so happy when ArsTechnca finally allowed me to change it to dark background with white text). I can see how switching over to CSS will help with the smaller screens on phones. Browsing this site on my Windows phone was so frustrating that I usually avoided it when I could. Now the site automatically adjusts to my phone's screen size. I don't have to scroll back and forth or zoom just to read the site's pages. This is a huge improvement over the old site. Thanks guys! |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Posting here because I am hoping Dr. Anderson is keeping up with the comments, and that he will take the constructive ones into consideration. A few things I do not like....(not necessarily in order of annoyance.) 1. The tabs problem. I often have a number of tabs open for various Seti pages, and they used to display a snippet of the page's identity. Now they all just display SETI....so it's harder to select the tab I want. 2. My sig has two img blocks in it. My Seti kitty banner, and my Boincstats stats block. They used to display side by side, which I did on purpose as it took up less vertical space in the forums. Now they are one above the other. 3. Having the text in bold when quoting another post is absolutely ridiculous. 4. On the home page, the main navigation headings.....Project, Science, Computing, Community, Site. Most web pages give you the drop downs when you mouse over the heading, and can then slide down to the item you want. You should not have to click on the heading to get the drop down items. 5. Some posts for whatever reason do not wrap text properly. The line of text goes off of the right of the screen, requiring scrolling right to read it all. As one who spends a LOT of time on the Seti forums, I do hope that these comments are taken as being constructive and hope that they may be remedied. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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