Testing new forum code ...

banjo

As I wrote in another post, I don't have this issue (planned feature?) with http, only with https (Chrome + Win10). Obviously https is overall the preferred choice over http

pmrobert

Oddly, I haven't seen any alternating color ever. Win 10, up-to-date Chrome.

Heater.

What, even when using "https://" as in:

https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/169048/testing-new-forum-code#latest

Then I get alternate grey shading on posts in Chrome on Win 10.

I can't for the life of me fathom why this shading should be different for http: and https:

Edit: Even more oddly I get alternate grey shading with both http: and https: using the same Chrome version on a Debian Linux machine. And superscript and subscript work there (as in the first poste here) but not the noparse.

All very strange.

evanh

[noparse] doesn't do anything under any situation, right?[/noparse]

evanh

The forum's a tad overdue for auto-redirecting http to https.

Heater.

Can't see [noparse] working in any situation (http or https, Win 10 or Debian) using Chrome.

[noparse] does not work in my Win 10 Firefox on Win 10.

Now I notice that I do get alternate grey shading in Firefox with or without https:

evanh

Lol, what the chances that visibility of the light grey bands is more dependent on LCD monitor quality that anything to do with software.

EDIT: Although that doesn't explain why some people are seeing a light green instead.

Heater.

Admittedly it's a very light grey which I can imagine might be hard to see on some LCD monitors. Some I my old monitors are very bad about this.

But when I switch from HTTPS to HTTP in Chrome on Win 10 I'm using the exact same monitor. The difference is quite noticeable.

I tried to do a diff between the HTML served up when using HTTP and HTTPS. But that showed every line was different! Even when ignoring blanks.

evanh

Oh, I see, it needs both Chrome and HTTP, combined, to trigger the no-show.

Heater.

Yes, except on by Debian machine with the same Chrome version which always shows the grey backgrounds!

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I see no difference with Chrome on MacBook between HTTP and HTTPS.

-Phil

pmrobert

So now the alternating message BG color thing shows up on both http and https. It's a minor thing but c'mon, Parallax!

jmg

pmrobert wrote: »

So now the alternating message BG color thing shows up on both http and https. It's a minor thing but c'mon, Parallax!

Here, on Win10 and Chrome, it fails to show on https/ but does show on http/ (same monitor, of course)

jmg

and there are other differences too ...
See the renders on http & https attached

Grey background, and blue quote box border, differ.

kwinn

On my Dell Inspiron using Firefox it looks the same on HTTP and HTTPS. Both alternate post with white and gray backgrounds.

Heater.

But wait, jmg, on this Win 10 and Chrome machine with a fairly nice Samsung monitor I have it the other way around:

HTTP:// - No grey backgrounds. No blue borders on quote boxes.

HTTPS:// - Alternating grey back grounds and blue borders on quote box

What on Earth is going on?

pmrobert

This alternating background thing is confusing. Parallax please get rid of it.

msrobots

I guess most of the confusion is because Parallax is currently changing the html/css/script stuff. And they are in the cloud now, so it is not guaranteed that @Heater. gets the same source from the same server then @"Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)". Furthermore there is the cache issue, starting at the server side where request/response get cached down to the browser not reloading each CSS file every time.

Short, what you guys get is not the same,

Mike

Heater.

msrobots,

Blow me down you are right. When I disable the browser cache in Chrome I get the same alternating grey back grounds in HTTP and HTTPS.

Kicking myself for not thinking of that. It's not like I have not had this problem many times before.

No help with the noparse thing though.

Wuerfel_21

While i personally prefer the alternating backgrounds, here is a solution for the people that don't: just install this userstyle i wrote. Here is a Userstyle manager for Chrome or Vivaldi, if you don't have one already. There's also one for Firefox, but i'm too lazy to dig out a link for it.

@-moz-document domain("forums.parallax.com") {
.Item.Alt.ItemComment {
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
}

The code blocks however should be improved with proper selectable syntax highlighting for at least C and Spin. (However, most common libraries that do syntax highlighting support many common languages out-of-the-box)

laurent974

Is that possible to skip the 3 columns at the right ? (# of views, # of vote, # of follows) ?

or at least on smartphone. I don't think those columns are really usefull for forum's users.