Zuni: Small problem with CSS rendering

[kuk]

When setting the Dark Night color theme, visited links which are hovered appear in size 10, compared to size 12 of the "unhovered". Because of this, the text shrinks. If you pass the mouse, entering the link from right to left, it starts to go weirdo. This is visually distracting, and a bit annoying.

Just something to address on the next version of FT ...

Kuk

EDIT: Ohh, running IE 6.0 ... also appears on Mozilla 1.0.

 

[Jason Clark]

Actually it has nothing to do with FT, the styles are all dynamic and fed from the db, which was customized by anandtech.

I tested this and the links are fine, they do not change here for any of the thread links or links in messages. All the hover styles are is a change in text-decoration and color, they do not alter color.

 

[kuk]

OK Zuni, I found out where the problem is.
Firstly, some screenshots ... place one window over the other and alternate the views ... you'll see the text shrink.
Visited Link - No Hover
Visited Link - Hover

Remember that this appears with the Dark Night theme ... and probably because I cutomized the font to Tahoma. From what I see here, the stylesheet a.ftalternatingbarlinksmall:visited has two font-family declarations: one for "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica", and another for "Tahoma". The problem is not with font size, but with font type, as the browser will render the Verdana instance, resulting in different fonts being displayed. Removing the first font-family instance, the page renders correctly. This way:

a.ftalternatingbarlinksmall:visited{font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: yellow; font-family: Tahoma;}

should actually be:
a.ftalternatingbarlinksmall:visited{font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: yellow; font-family: Tahoma;}

I don't know what implications these changes might do to FT ... and because of the obscurity of the bug, probably it's better to leave unchanged, since not many people will notice. I just wanted to alert you anyway ...


Kuk - 🙂

PS: Ohhh, and what do you think about the new ColdFusion MX server? I particularly loved the Query of Query idea ... saves a lot of queries from having to access the DB.

 

[Jason Clark]

It actually isn't the style sheets, it's your customized font that's probably doing that. That is the way the styles are customized for font customization when the dynamic sheets are parsed, we won't be changing the way that works anytime soon though. Thanks for the report. In our next product that sort of customizing is gone, it's just theme selection and some color stuff.

MX rocks, but query of queries has been there since 5.0 🙂.

 

[kuk]

Well, I loved my new deep blue theme ... you don't have the right to take it away from me for FuseTalk 4. 😛😉
You're right ... putting down a different font over at the customize section will render these weird results. I just hope that you understood what was going on. When will be the next major release of FuseTalk?

Oh, and how come I didn't stumble across Query of Queries on the CF5 documentation? It was exactly what I was looking for when I was designing my nonexistent webpage. Oh well, you probably know much much more of CF than me.

Thanks Zuni ... your work is inspiring to us all (well, for me at least).

Kuk 🙂

 

[Paulson]

actually I found the answer!

if you leave the font size option blank, it squishes the link when hovering..

however, when you enter in a size (like say 12) it doesn't squish anymore 🙂

Damn I'm a genious (who can't spell)

 

[Jason Clark]

Kuk, yeah it was there in CF5 should be in the docs, although it does not perform all that great, MX is mucho better.