Which stylesheet do you use? (because I want to know and because polls need testing too, perhaps)

I'll cop to choosing blueski if for no other reason than all the other stylesheets' fonts are too big.

I like only having to hit page down once on the New Answers page.

press ctrl-minus

No, blueski.css will do fine, thx.

kenan's font is small too

I wish keith.css didn't use Verdana, but otherwise that get's my vote now.

God, I hate Verdana. I should stop typing.

The problem with the fact that you can count on only about 10 fonts existing on all computers is that they're all pretty well shopworn by now. E.g., there are (to my knowledge) 4 sans-serif fonts you can count on being available to any graphical web-display device:

• Arial
• Verdana
• Trebuchet MS
• Lucida Sans

TNR is shit on screens anyway.

TNR is shit on screens anyway.

I seem to recall that the next version of Firefox will contain dynamic font technology. (Does anyone remember Truedoc?) I suppose that might shake up the snowglobe a bit.

xp to libcrypt. Sure, I realize all too well that typographical options on the web are limited, Times sucks, Verdana is a screen font, the Typography unit at Microsoft is surprisingly sophisticated and well-funded for a company with such poor corporate taste, Eric Gill slept with his daughter and his dog, etc., etc., but I still hate Verdana.

xp, there's an IE version too: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/21/font-embedding-on-the-web.aspx

I love Verdana but it is growing a bit tired.

Does old.css's win tell us something about some vague inherent conservatism or fear/dislike of change? Or is it simply the most useable/readable one of the bunch? Do new members also pick old.css when they experiment with their preferences?

I expected the default one would win.

Actually, black Times against a white background doesn't exactly scream out to the rest of the office that you're posting to message boards all day. It could be a Word document for all they know.

(xpost)

old.css is great because it's simpler and wittier.

do this poll again after my new one drops, it could get DOUBLE the votes

which thread was the list of css classes on?

Boards page, ILX Styles link near the bottom.

coming soon: caek.css

Will caek.css drop SCIENCE on us? Coz ifso, that's the one I'm going for. (Though I want assurances it will not generate tiny black holes in my operating system.)

the background image will be the hubble deep field and all text will be at 6x10^-36 pt.

Yesss!!!!

(Can all posts by killfiled members be shown being sucked into supermassive black hole at centre of galaxy, please?)

I would like to add my vote for Kenan's style sheet although I missed this actual poll. It's so sleek and minimalist. Brings a level of class to Ilx I didn't think possible.

Thank you, though I can't take credit for the minimalist part. That's pretty much enforced by the html, and rightly so.

old.css should be the default - its ilx's trademark

― update prefs (ice crӕm), Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:44 PM (5 days ago)

Yeah making old.css the default seems sensible.

it's really really easy to change it tho... i wonder if noobs would naturally drift to old.css. it might be worth keeping the default as is for some sort of experiment there (ymmv re worth of course)

Um, what just happened?

new blueski.css is available now, rewritten for the new code

I guess that's what happened. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

it's awesome :)

i could make the line between each post fainter maybe

Actually, I'm fine with that. It's the New Answers page that I feel unsure about. Like there's too much space between each thread title, maybe? It might just be something I'll get used to, though.

It is really good. Nice one.

Oh and thanks for sorting it out.

i approve of new blueski.css. some text is a little bit small for my eyes is my only grumble.

old.css should be deleted to force these luddites to get with the times, man

shut the fuck up you fucking cunt

oh snap

i don't think you are Jonathan Williams, are you?

Whoa, quotes in light blue is awesome!

sorry it took so long keef

jaymc, that did occur to me but i do think it makes it a little bit clearer overall

Yeah, I think I'll be OK. Good work, Steve.

also the square bullets look weird, varying heights somehow. fiddling with the gap between thread titles might fix that i dunno.

If there was a version of keith.css that used serif fonts, I'd use that. READABILITY!!!

Well, I stuck a keith2 (and a style3) there that have the fonts removed, so they will pick up whatever font your browser is set to use.

SWEEEEET, thanks!

oh yeh style3 ftw

Yeah, that's the one right thurr.