Problems with color in application .>> change appearance ?

[jsmoraes]

I was informed that my forum lost the background gray color. It was white.

But to me it was normal, gray. So, I did some tests.

1) with browser Chrome it was normal

2) with I. E. Microsoft version 8.0 it was white

3 with Firefox  version 27.01 it was white.

What happens I don't understand, but if I change the color to link from D00000 to another value, the background color BFBFBF doesn't work. The old value was  B00000.

There were repetition of behavior.

Now. my forum is normal, with background color gray, because the link color is D0000.

Pedro, if you want you can test it on my forum. As the behavior is repetitive we can return to gray color at any time with link value d0000

http://astronomia-e-astrofotos.1069742.n5.nabble.com/

[GregChapman]

The latest Nabble updates seem to have had a serious effect on a large number of forums.

• I am noticing many colour changes on my forums (e.g. dropping out of customised colour schemes)
• Significant reformatting of forums, (e.g. fonts now smaller and less legible and excessive padding introduced)
• Loss of Message Starring facility (a serious loss for me!)
• Customised NAML causing Error500 messages (I can't change email addresses and I've just changed ISP. Aaargh!)

You are not alone!

[jsmoraes]

Yes, Greg. A small change... and a big mess ! Though only to the people that has customised NAML code.
Pedro informs that these macros were modified:

starred_nodes_path was deleted

call_later_handlers
cell_link_and_star
search_page_title
compile_all
topics_table_columns
topic_head
user_nodes
star_column deleted
topics_column
subapp_column
js_header_functions
standard_table_columns

avatar_control deleted
last_post_column

If you have override on them, you must check these overrides.

I already saw some overrides of default macro by Nabble. I don't know why they didn't use this method at this moment. Star seems to be a single field type logic: yes/no. The avatar modification was only to show or not  them. Why to do this radical surgery ?
I think that if only was changed the default macro, with Nabble override, perhaps many troubles never would appear.

What these alterations have with color of background and link ? Or CSS declarations ? It seems we have many others modifications in the code. Not only star and avatar.

Why with Google Chrome the appearance is different from others browsers ? Did you, Greg, tried to see your forum with Chrome ? Perhaps some alterations you see now will not exist when using Chrome. Similar the gray and white background of my forum.

I read about your problem with starring facility. As we haven't possibility to create fields in database, I reckon that the better way to this issue is to create some flag in messages that need special attention. As I did, to show some icons in front of messsages.
I created many, but your purpose doesn't need more than one.
 You can see an example of what I want to say in my forum: http://astronomia-e-astrofotos.1069742.n5.nabble.com/

note: the solution of my bacground color was luck. As in I.E Microsoft the color red of link was very strong, saturated, I tried to change it, and by luck the background returned to gray color when I wrote the value d00000.  

[jsmoraes]

Greg wrote

• I am noticing many colour changes on my forums (e.g. dropping out of customised colour schemes)
• Significant reformatting of forums, (e.g. fonts now smaller and less legible and excessive padding introduced)

Bingo, Greg !
I did a test with your forum, here. There are some differences between Chrome and I. E. Microsoft version 8.0. It is the same thing with my forum.

The face of letter are different. With Internet Explorer the letter seems to be BOLD. And color seems to be saturated.
It wil be the same with Firefox.

I knew that there was difference in code of java between  Netscape and Microsoft. (yes, Greg, I'm an old man  ... Netscape ?!?! ... ) Will be the same between Chrome and others browsers ?

Your forum is more light with Chrome than with Internet Explorer Microsoft.



Perhaps that is the problem. The last update missing some code to others browsers. It was tested only with Chrome.

[Pedro]

I changed your link color value to B00000, I see no difference between background colors.

[jsmoraes]

yes, I saw. And I don't know how to explain.  I did this change many times, and it was repetitive with Internet explore. But now the color of background is normal (gray) in Chrome and Internet Explore.

Thanks for your attention. And excuse me by the topic. But it was so real to me at that time. Now, it is a false problem.
All is working fine.

If it occurs again, I will be more careful and will test more times to report better .