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

"Aw. Thanks nath. :)"

No way, dude, thank YOU. :-) How's it going anyway? Even though I'm online all the time - thanks to my iphone - I can't seem to get in touch with y'alls. :-)

might be worth noting that when I tried to vote while logged out I got an "Error Has Occurred, Try Again Shortly" message.

anything other than old.css looks horrible and wrong to me.

old.css

I like serifs.

old.css!!!!!

I'm using Standard Stylesheet for the time being. Several of them hurt my eyes, particularly the IBM one.

old.css, but keith.css looks pretty readable

keith.css, easy. With the upgrade, I went thru and tested all the stylesheets just to remind myself and see what was new, and keith.css is still the most readable: Posts are differentiated by non-obnoxiously colored boxes, margins are healthy (I can't believe how many of the ILX stylesheet makers just don't get this), and the alignment is reasonable. It's not innovative or anything, but that's not really the point.

What could be improved: post divs should be white, so's to best blend with random pic pastes.

blueski remains my favorite

Someone should tell blueski about margins.

black.css easily wins the absolutely unreadable award, tho.

i really like what blueski looks like, but it gets all garbled on my machine

grinding genitals into sauce, boss

sheesh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I presume about 90 percent of the old.css votes are sheer nostalgia.

If by "90" you mean "1", then yes.

style-monochrome.css: Standard Stylesheet in monochrome

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.

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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.

which one do you mean? (the label)

black.css for life!!

I switched over to standard-dark a while back and it's been a good change, very easy to read.

My only gripe is with reading quote blocks on my phone. It formats them extremely narrow, so you only get a couple words per line.

Aww, crap. It looks like naus.css is broken because imageshack.us sold out. Any chance I could host that penguin .gif on the ilxor servers and amend the css to preserve that Aja/Dante legacy forever? It's not like anybody's ever going to use it.

Yeah - send it to stet @ ilxor dot com pls!