Code Tags

Shockwave · July 17, 2009

Thanks to benny for suggesting this idea, there is so much source code on here I am surprised this wasnt thought of before.

Benny pointed out to me that the code was in a rather small font and was very difficult to read, in fact I must admit to copying chunks of it into Notepad to read it, I never thought to just change the way it's displayed.

Anyway, it's dont now, the font is larger and in dark green so it should be much more readable, I may tweak the colour if people dont like it but it should definately make things easier here anyway.

benny! · July 17, 2009

Much better now, Shocky! Thanks for that!

benny! · July 17, 2009

Test an even more geekier color scheme.
Have a look at it ;-)

Shockwave · July 17, 2009

What do you think folks?

slinks · July 17, 2009

Green on black is how code should always be displayed

Shockwave · July 17, 2009

Quote from: slinks on July 17, 2009
Green on black is how code should always be displayed

I have a problem with this...

When I was in College I had to use a language called COBOL, it stands for Commercial and Bollocks Orientated Language, it has no graphics commands and I had to write my code on 286 PC's with green monochrome monitors... It's just total trauma for me... But if enough people want the change.... . .

Jim · July 17, 2009

The bigger font is definitely an improvement. Can we leave it dark on light please? The green on black is very low contrast and hard to read on a badly angled lcd screen (laptops in particular), at least imho.

Jim

zawran · July 18, 2009

I would prefer the light background with dark lettering as well.

Shockwave · July 18, 2009

I experimented with dark blue bold text in the same text pane and it looked great, so maybe a slight change to dark blue on a light background?

benny! · July 18, 2009

Yup, I guess everyone has his personal preferences. So, I think
you cannot find the ultimate colour scheme everyone is pleased
with?

Maybe the bigger size is enough ...

In the end I think Jim's point is good, that it requires at least a
good contrast. This is definately more eye-friendly.

@Shocky:
Anyway, maybe you can post a screeny of your color scheme ?

Shockwave · July 18, 2009

It's just the same as we have now mate with a colour value of #002 insteal of #020

slinks · July 18, 2009

Quote from: Jim on July 17, 2009
Can we leave it dark on light please? The green on black is very low contrast and hard to read on a badly angled lcd screen (laptops in particular), at least imho.

Wasn't aware of this problem. If that's the case, then okay, I have no problem with a dark on light or whathave you. Green on black will always be the classic nerd colour scheme however

Jim · July 18, 2009

Oh definitely. Or amber on dark orange. And printer paper will be 14 inches wide and have green and white bars on it

Jim

Clyde · July 22, 2009

Checked in Azure Theme.

The code tag font is too big compared with the rest of the message text.
And the black border is too thick.

Shockwave · July 22, 2009

The code tag font is meant to be big clyde.