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The advanced reply box too ... no change in font size at all. In fact, the font color was made one shade darker!
DaniWeb does use slightly more resources ... some of the style elements (such as curving the corners of boxes) is now done client-side via JavaScript instead of via CSS. In other words, whereas before there were dozens of little images that needed to be downloaded with each page to give the curved corners effect, now no images are necessary and JavaScript just does the work.
What I found, however, is that once your browser caches the JavaScript file, things get faster quite quickly. Also note that there are all new images throughout the site. Therefore, all of the images you have cached (which you're accustomed to the time it takes to use) will need to be redownloaded. You should definitely give it at least a day or so of use before you start comparing speed differences due to browser caching.
I did put effort into reducing the amount of JavaScript there is. If it is still a problem for a large number of users, I will consider adding an option in the control panel to forfeit curved corners for users with slow CPUs. I really don't think this will be necessary though.
DaniWeb does use slightly more resources ... some of the style elements (such as curving the corners of boxes) is now done client-side via JavaScript instead of via CSS. In other words, whereas before there were dozens of little images that needed to be downloaded with each page to give the curved corners effect, now no images are necessary and JavaScript just does the work.
What I found, however, is that once your browser caches the JavaScript file, things get faster quite quickly. Also note that there are all new images throughout the site. Therefore, all of the images you have cached (which you're accustomed to the time it takes to use) will need to be redownloaded. You should definitely give it at least a day or so of use before you start comparing speed differences due to browser caching.
I did put effort into reducing the amount of JavaScript there is. If it is still a problem for a large number of users, I will consider adding an option in the control panel to forfeit curved corners for users with slow CPUs. I really don't think this will be necessary though.
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Just to add ... did comparisons on like five different PCs and, upon clearing browser cache, curving corners with JS was faster than curving corners with CSS (because of all the small files that needed to be downloaded one at a time in addition to CSS rendering time). So I'm confident this is the better option. I even tested it out on my five year old mac to make sure that it's not too JS intensive for older computers.
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oic. Does the text size not appear different to anyone, though? It really does seem much smaller. It appears like an 8 or 9 text size in Microsoft Word.
Also, why do old 'quotes' not appear in that gray shaded region anymore?
Also, why do old 'quotes' not appear in that gray shaded region anymore?
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Editor font size was 11px before and it's 11px now. I just need to clear out my post cache to fix the old quotes problem.
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Chaky, stop trying to find more places for ads. Other members are bound to start getting mad at you.
Also ... all of these layouts you're screenshotting are actually vBulletin defaults
Also ... all of these layouts you're screenshotting are actually vBulletin defaults
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Am I the only paranoid individual that thinks the text size in the text editors has become smaller?
oh wow, at least firefox's spell checker actually works without you having to right click in the text area and check 'spell check this field'.
oh wow, at least firefox's spell checker actually works without you having to right click in the text area and check 'spell check this field'.
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If you don't like my suggestions, discard them.
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