Bong . . .

[zotz]

Daily Express calls Daily Mail "right-wing" . . . more news as it breaks . . .

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[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Bong ... Jack Straw calls John Reid "Tony Blair's lapdog"

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Hey, you've done something weird to this page. Have they finally made comments pages customisable?

[zotz]

I haven't done anything. Not recently, anyway. I think something was changed an hour or two ago during a lttle bit of downtime.

[zotz]

I should also point out that I don't like the change and wouldn't have put it this way on purpose. Of course, you might have a recent browser and it might look OK to you - I won't know until I get home.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Well it looks pretty good to me on Moz/W2k. The usericons are reduced in size from normal, but I think that makes sense, and looks OK. Most importantly, from my point of view, is that it means that comments pages actually look like they're part of the owning journal, which I felt was always a lack in LJ (by comparison with blogs using Movable Type, for example).

I see from Fiona's comments to an earlier post that this is the "S2" style system, and I'm giving its tyres a kick on my own journal at the moment.

[zotz]

I have a choice of Nutscrape Nobulator 3 or 4.7. In theory we could move to Moz (it does run under DU) but it doesn't seem to be on the cards (and I'm leaving next month anyway).

This doesn't look good under my usual defaults. Nothing seems to be indented, which makes it very difficult to see who's replying to what. I'll see what it looks like from home - more like what the rest of the world sees.

[zotz]

On the other hand, LJ seems very slick just at the moment. If the extra speed and responsiveness is in any way an effect of the new system, then it's certainly a good thing.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

It's been really buggy for me this morning, loads of errors. No 404s though, for a change.

So what did you do when you were playing with your LJ? Because you and tinyjo are the only people with custom comments.

I can't decide whether to try it on mine or not. I quite like being able to escape from the burgundy sometimes. Your comments pages look great on IE6 though.

[zotz]

I've no idea what I did. It made no difference at the time, so I gave up on it and forgot.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/customize/, select "S2" from the dropdown, and follow on from there. It doesn't all seem to be working quite right yet, though. I can't change the colour of text in headings on comment pages, as you'll see if you look at one of my comment pages.

Oh, and it's been quite buggy for me today, too.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. S2 would be all fine and dandy if it didn't stomp all over your customisations written in S1.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Ah. My journal is heavily customised with style sheets, so I don't think I'll mess with it since I'm not sure I even want it to do that.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, fair point. I haven't done too much customisation, and I was getting bored with the way it looked anyway. And I so like the matching comments page (and every other kind of page £mdash; it's crazy in the old version how you have to set up a style for recent entries, then do the same for day view, and so on).

But I look forward to being able to create my own S2 styles and/or customise further with stylesheets.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Hmm; one extreme weakness is that I don't seem to be able to delete my previous comment (so that I can replace £mdash; with &mdash and its semicolon).

So we're just stuck with my typoes.

BUM!

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

AND it renders & mdash as — even without the semicolon. It shouldn't do that, should it?

(Martin will now stop talking to himself and start learning to use the "Preview" button.)

BUM!

[blufive.livejournal.com]

That's down to the browsers. IE started it, and now the entire world is convinced that the semicolon is optional, so other browsers follow suit (though I assume moz only does it in quirks mode or something)