Vivaldi Forum mod

[zaibon]

@luetage
Just noticed that you already fixed this - thanks a lot again ^^

[luetage]

@zaibon yep, I made a silent update in between, with this fix and some theme inconsistency stuff.

New in 0.60
-Theme Mod
-Fix for viewing uploaded images while using a theme

The new update from just a few minutes ago introduces a new theme. Please tell me if you spot any inconsistencies with it. I made heavy use of comments in the code for the theme this time, in the hope that it will help members write their own themes (makes reusing code easier).

I also thought about introducing a new modification, namely letting users pick a specific logo independently from theme, but I don't know if anybody really wants this. Moreover it's likely Vivaldi will introduce a new forum logo soon, therefore this mod might be implemented after this has happened.

Theme Mod

[luetage]

@luetage Sorry, it seems like I posted too soon, the chrome store hasn't pushed the update yet, at least not on my installed version. You can force the update by ticking developer mode and clicking "Update extensions now". Next time I'll wait with the post until it's active.

[zaibon]

@luetage
I am off for a short four day vacation but I am eager to have a look at it afterwards

[sjudenim]

@luetage

Thanks for the update.

To make things even easier for would be modders, how about creating colour variables at the start of the code?

For example, this is how I started a theme I made for Vimeo

/* Color Variables */
    :root
{
    --main-background: #0f0f0f;
    --second-background: #141414;
    --third-background: #1a1a1a;
    --hover-background: #3A3A3A;
    --main-font-color: #c0c0c0;
    --second-font-color: #808080;
    --header-font-color: #607680;
    --highlight-font-color: #fff;     
    --button-background: #607680;
    --button-background-hover: #8a9ea8;
    --link-color: #00acee;
    --link-color-hover: #26c2ff;
}

now when you style the elements you can use

background: var(--main-background);
color: var(--main-font-color);

etc.

This way it's easier to give a theme a fresh look without having to dig through the code

[luetage]

@sjudenim That's a good idea. But I wonder how to implement it. Use it on an existing theme, provide a new basic theme that takes advantage of this, or use the custom theme and set the basic colors to be standard like.

[Isildur]

I'm late to the thread, but nice work.

[luetage]

I believe it would be really nice if we could manage to create at least one Holiday/Xmas/Christmas theme until coming December. There is about 4 months time, but I thought I mention this now so anyone, who wants to give this a try, has enough time to come up with something.

I will add the themes to the extension of course. In the unlikely event there are a ton of submissions, the best ones will be added.

[luetage]

Version 0.66
I noticed that Vivaldi Forum uses up to 5 different font sizes in a single post. 14px, 13px, 12px, 11px and 8 pixel. This is madness, if we can learn anything from decades of website design and centuries of bookprint, then less is obviously more.

This update reduces the font sizes used in a single post to just 2 (+ another for the parent-post-button), and I think it looks far cleaner now. I also removed the mess that is the current threaded reply header and reverted it to the old format. But this might change in a future update.

If you notice anything else, please let me know. Update should be live by now.

[LonM]

I've experimented with something that I find quite useful.
Something like this in themes.js:

var now = new Date();
var hours = now.getHours();
if (hours < 8 || hours > 21){
	var TdarkGrey = document.createElement("link");
	//... stuff to load the theme in
}

That way you could have a light theme during the day and a dark one at night.

[luetage]

@lonm Not a bad idea, it'd be like scheduled theming in the browser, with the difference that it cannot switch over automatically, the user needs to reload the page. There could even be an automatic reload, but this is probably too invasive.

[callum]

This is really cool, thank you

[i_ri]

"one Holiday/Xmas/Christmas theme until coming December. "
luetage. Your themes seem to be working to the delight of many individuals. Something for everybody is the success of your platform. It seems to be working. about the forum decorating: winter decoration is wintery decoration. minus the other themes that luetage mention. I am willing to take the unpopular stance that enjoying the winter holidays does not include insincere and parodied foisting of symbolism from a international browser community. usually becomes limited to a snowman and ice skates. status quo is preferable from within the forum, while allowing decoration to come from outside the forum as users share their winter and summer, desert and alpine exclamations of the moment. when i donate a snowflake the Aleuts, Azores, NewZealanders, Australia, Iceland will grit with great patience for different reasons. picking a time period for Winter Holiday decoration from inside a international forum does not serve the purpose of uniting users; instead it illustrates differences. It can cause one user to feel as an outsider. We do not want that. We all should celebrate our diversity, but it doesn't work that way in reality.
with great respect of the work from all involved here
i_ri

[luetage]

I have a relatively big feature coming up soon, and I'm glad I took my time with releasing it, because as you may have noticed, the Vivaldi Forum header has changed dramatically. There are more options/links, which were always previously available on the blog page, and they increased the size by 20px and put up a Vivaldi lettering beside the logo.

Quick question, do you guys want me to revert theses changes (lettering and spacing, I guess no one minds more link options), or are you fine with it? Or do you want it optional? I will pack this into the next release.

Personally I think the 20 pixels more in the header are completely uncalled for, and especially painful for people with smaller/lower resolution screens.

[Ayespy]

@luetage You might want to wait a few days or hours until the release of the new userblogs for Vivaldi.net. Once that's out and established, you'll know exactly what we're going to be working with over the next nert-term future.

[luetage]

@ayespy The new user blogs need a higher header, and floating highlights and misaligned dropdowns? I don't know, maybe I'm just overly critical. I fixed it all for myself anyway just now, it's no big deal. But I don't know why something like this is released unto the public.

[Ayespy]

@luetage It's a silent rollout. There may be more changes before the announcement.

[i_ri]

wow it is beautiful.

[luetage]

It's an unfortunate situation. A big change introduced on a Friday with no follow up for at least 3 days. Seems like we will have to wait this one out. I do wonder if something will be done about it though. After the changes to the threaded replies header no one ever fixed them. And it's been a few weeks since then. Should nothing happen in the following days I'm gonna fix the freshly introduced bugs in the next version.

[Maniastern]

Very nice, but why the plug-in realisation? Usually, people who use such modifications do it with two or one plug-ins implementing custom CSS and JS into any website. Why not JS+CSS scripts sharing? It's nice, really, but it's also not actually good for user to install plug-in for a single site instead of using what he most likely already has. You think it worth an additional plug-in, someone else thinks the same for some other site, and we eventually have a huge pack of little plug-ins for huge pack of sites when we could have just two good plug-ins and don't be anxious about the browser productivity.

Would be nice if you share JS+CSS code here with any public code pad. I really love your work, very clear and accurate, and I also couldn't find such a beautiful dark theme on userstyles.org, so I'm really excited to finally find what I wanted. But though I think the plug-in will help people who doesn't know how code implementing plug-ins work, for others, I think, scripts sharing would be more useful.

Thank you.