New forum layout?

[RavensFan]

The problem with the smileys is probablay the same problem I was talking about with the other graphical elements.

Christian, have you seen changes on the other Lithium forums as well?  I only rarely go on the Verizon forum.

While the forums are handled by Lithium, I know that each forum owner has the ability to style it in ways that they want.  Since these changes occurred right around the same time that NI changed the regular website, it feels to me like they made changes in their particular style implementation.  Otherwise, it would be purely coincidental that Lithium made changes in their website that caused all these font, graphics, and dialog box problems the same weekend that NI changed its own website.

[altenbach]

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RavensFan wrote:

Christian, have you seen changes on the other Lithium forums as well?  I only rarely go on the Verizon forum.

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Yes, they look a bit better on the verizon forum.

 

[Darin.K]

NI either added a new stylesheet to the CSS cascade, or changed one of them.  The ni-sass-sid-wrapper.css defines the margin-bottom property as 6 px for an image element and stomps the definition in ni_wrapper_skin933904439.css (or default value of 0) which covers the NI-customized Lithium format.  You can disable the new stylesheet and the forum looks much better while the header and footer (the new parts) are messed up.

This does not appear to be a Lithium thing (for once), it is an NI thing.

[altenbach]

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Darin.K wrote:

This does not appear to be a Lithium thing (for once), it is an NI thing.

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Let's keep posting to get all the new problems, then have NI find a compromise that minimizes the amout of overall brokenness. 😄

[ToeCutter]

At least give us an option to revert to the old style- the new version is a lot less readable, IMO.

[tst]

I see the narrow width layout on one computer and the full width layout on another, both running FF 27.0.1 on Windows 7. I'm not sure what the difference is. Maybe the good one is still using the old CSS.

I'm from far a web expert, but looking at the source indicates that the offender is the MinimumWidthContainer class in the ni_wrapper_skin CSS file , which on the problem computer appears to be 960 px. Setting it to 98% makes the content fill the window nicely.

[crossrulz]

The full screen is used on my wife's netbook.

But on my work machine, it feels like half of the screen is white space on the sides.

[Intaris]

I would like to regaint he full width of my browser window but I have to say I actually like the new design.

The superscript smileys must be fixed though.

All in all I find it OK.  I always have my forums set up to display 50 posts ona  single page so a little more scrolling doesn't really affect my usage that much (I had to scroll regularly anyway).

On Firefox, zooming in everythingmakes it a bit more readable but that also zooms in on images.  Just scaling the text is terrible because the margins left and right are fixed and soom we see nothing of note in the middle with larger text.

Something needs tweaking.  Teething pains.

[Ray.R]

Did this feature change??

I seem to recall that when looking at all the latest posts within my profile (within VIEW ALL), if I clicked on the link in the NEW column which had the number of posts since my last visit to that thread, it would bring me to the first of the unread posts.

Now it simply brings me to my last post within the thread.  If the behavior I described is now lost with the recent change, then it needs to be brought back..

[tst]

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@tst wrote:

I'm not sure what the difference is. Maybe the good one is still using the old CSS.

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Nope. They're both using the same CSS and they both treat the widh of the element as 9xx pixels. It looks like the zoom level is what's different. If I zoom out, then I get the narrow view here too.

Of course, I still expect that fixing the width setting in the CSS that I mentioned (there actually appear to be two relevant values) should fix this for everyone.