OOC tags

On my phone that is very faint and hard to read, especially outside. I don't post while out an about as much as I used to, but I still am on the site through my phone from time to time. I'm not a fan of how it appears on my monitor either.

The slightly bolder "OOC:" is better than your line below it. The darkness needs to be bumped up a bit.

What about just a border? I like how Notes and Quotes look now. Could it just appear as text within a thin black border, or would that be to distracting for people?

I feel like having the OOC look different than Notes and Quotes is important, but if the background were a different color it would be enough to distinguish between the different type of communication.

Checking naatkinson's bug

That's basically what I wanted. I like it, of course. Allowing users to modify the colour with normal colour tags would be, certainly, sufficient (and more flexible then baked in colours). I also like that it doesn't have the box around it, as that makes the text feel like 'part' of the post (while quotes 'stand out' I think OOC should 'stand in' - if that makes sense). I might turn the dial up on the shading --closer to black.

Yeah...I see what Naatkinson got the first time.This time I included text under the OOC comment.

Edit: Seems to have an issue with the [/ooc] being the last thing in the post. Beyond My skill to diagnose further.

This is in-character speech, with my PC saying "Oh yeah? I don't think you're ready at all!" and with that, he lashes out with his rapier.

I see what Naatkinson means.

It may be caching. Try force refreshing your page?

I understand your point of view Candi. If the text were darker I would be happier. As it is it is to light, but I do like the format if the font color can be fixed.

Hmm, force refreshing the page seems to fix the bug with it keeping the tags in the post

Fixed it; bad regex.

Ok, so let's talk color. I thought about going with a light greyish/blue, which definitely read better. Wanna see it?

Agreed. It did fix it.

I can also add a color attribute to the ooc tag, so people could do something like [ ooc color="this would be a color" ] (sans spaces). But we should figure out a default color. I tried a darker grey, but it ends up looking like it's just part of the main text. How does this grey/blue look?

I was thinking something like #4d4d4d (30% white) where you've used something like #bfbfbf (75% white). Maybe #52527a (a 'muddied' purple) could work too. You need to avoid 'light' colours, or else it will have the same reading problems as the current one - but sure, let's see the blue.

Try a refresh or force refresh; it's in. I really have to figure out how to fix this cache issue.

This is in-character speech, with my PC saying "Oh yeah? I don't think you're ready at all!" and with that, he lashes out with his rapier.This is the purply one, now, yes? (that's what I see). Looks nice a clean now.

Foolsmask, hows the reading on the small screen?

Heh, that's actually the blue/grey I chose :p But I'm glad you like it!

So I didn't think the color tag would work IN the ooc tag, but glad it does. Guess I don't need to code that. We can still look at defining types of OOC if we want. But overall, yah, keep the thoughts coming.

I asked because I didn't trust my judgement of what colour it actually is (and, apparently, I was right not to trust my judgement of colour).And as a really thorough testing, I wanted to see if the formatting is distracting, or perfect, for a post with ooc text threaded into it.

Well, your judgement is right. The line between purple and blue/grey is thin.

I'm actually wondering if we should go for a blue or a green as the base text, so if people want to modify it, they could go for red and either the opposing color (green on blue or blue on green), for bad and for good.

I think what you've done is fine, AND it allows additional color-tagging. Perfect!