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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 17 06:03 PM UTC:

I have now updated Mobile Detect to 4.8.06. Since it works differently than the old version, mobile detection was a bit wonky until I got it working correctly.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Wed, Apr 17 03:53 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:45 PM:

That's now corrected.

I see

And maybe you’ll make text in brown dark mode if not whiter but bit brighter?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 17 03:45 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 03:23 PM:

Yes, the saving worked, but when writing the form on mobile, it was using the wrong condition to add " SELECTED" to the darker option. That's now corrected.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Wed, Apr 17 03:23 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Apr 16 07:25 PM:

Ah, forgot to say. Color scheme changes’ saving doesn’t work!

No, it works, but sets darker mode when turning to dark and vice-versa.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 16 08:04 PM UTC:

I have updated PHP to 8.1.28, and I will be going over the error logs for things I have to change to keep up with this new version. If anything stops working, let me know.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 16 07:25 PM UTC in reply to Diceroller is Fire from 07:11 PM:

For me, light brown text in brown Dark mode is significantly less readable.

That's going to vary with the device and the person. That's why there is now a third color scheme.


Diceroller is Fire wrote on Tue, Apr 16 07:11 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 12:35 PM:

For me, light brown text in brown Dark mode is significantly less readable. And comments’ text is still white and readable.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 16 12:35 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 11:10 AM:

I did not use the darker text color in globalindex.css, which the homepage uses, because it is mainly intended for making it easier to read long passages of text, which the homepage and other index pages do not have. It should affect text in lists if they are not links, but all the examples you gave of lists were filled with links. If you prefer a more high contrast display with white text on a dark background, you can use the Darker color scheme.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Tue, Apr 16 11:10 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sun Apr 14 08:17 PM:

And now in brown Dark mode text is light-brown instead of white!!!

However, main page and lists are not disturbed. It means that then entire site will work normally.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 14 08:17 PM UTC:

I modified the Dark color scheme to use a darker color for the text that works well with the chocolate background color. This is to make reading more comfortable on brightly lit screens. However, it was too low contrast on my Likebook Mars.

So I have added a new high contrast color scheme called Darker, represented by the New Moon emoji in the color scheme selection form. This is intended mainly for eink devices for which the Dark color scheme may be too low contrast, though you may still use it on other devices if you prefer it. In general, its background colors are darker, and its text colors are lighter. For the main background and text, it uses black and white. Unlike the Light and Dark color schemes, this one is not available through your browser settings. It is available only by selecting it on the website, and you may have to refresh your cache before it starts working.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Apr 13 08:41 PM UTC:

I have made the controls for changing the color scheme more accessible. They appear on the right of the menubar in desktop mode, and they appear at the bottom of the menu on mobile devices.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 12 08:08 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 07:53 PM:

Done.


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Apr 12 07:53 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:37 PM:

Perfect!

Could I have the ItemID of this page changed to match the changed title?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 12 05:56 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 07:18 AM:

My iPad has iOS 17.4.1, but I do have access to an old iPhone with iOS 15.8.2. The dark scheme partially works on it, but I see that the logo is not changing. It shows the elephant and unicorn logos instead of the dragon horse and (fairy) princess logos even when it is in dark mode. By substituting an older CSS file in index.html, I could tell that color-mix was not working, and blue but especially indigo did not contrast well with the dark background. I found this iPhone had the same problems in both Firefox and Chrome. At least using custom properties instead of color-mix has fixed the problem with the link text color.

To get the logo to change, I tried using the <picture> tag. As I feared, it would not work unless dark mode was selected at the browser level. This is why I normally use CSS to switch the logo. Chrome and Safari did not provide me any means to select dark mode at the browser level, though Firefox did. But when I selected dark mode in Firefox at the browser level, it wasn't working. Using test pages, I got it to work for browser selected dark mode by removing a test using :not. But doing this disabled the ability to select the light scheme from the menu when the browser's dark mode is turned on. I tried to fix this, and while my fix works on my desktop, it does not work in the Firefox app on this iPhone. So, I have no solution for getting the right logo to show up on this older iPhone that would work equally well with both methods of selecting the color scheme.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Apr 12 05:46 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:37 PM:

Well, it seems to be working fine for me now. :) Thanks!


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 12 04:37 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 03:13 AM:

I temporarily made myself the co-author of one of your pages to get the link you get for editing the page. I had introduced a new line using the variable $type, but the rest of the script was using $itemtype for the value of Type. So I changed the variable name, and it started working correctly.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Fri, Apr 12 12:11 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 07:18 AM:

Oh yeah, main and listing pages are fine. They’re the first pages which bring changes.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Fri, Apr 12 07:18 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Wed Apr 10 12:29 AM:

So, first, I would like you to report to me which version of which browser on which operating system or device has this problem. Then I would like you to make sure everything is up-to-date.

Safari. iOS 15.8.2 is the latest available for my device.


Lev Grigoriev wrote on Fri, Apr 12 07:03 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 01:22 AM:

Analogically. For any my submission.


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Apr 12 03:13 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:41 AM:

here and here


Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Apr 12 03:02 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:41 AM:

Works-in-progress:

Tifinagh Soup
Dai Dai Kagamigi
Unnecessarily Complicated Chess on a Tesseract
Greater Dragon Wars
Drunken (K)nights

Awaiting Review:

Unnecessarily Complicated Chess
Monster Mash
Xodohtro Chess (formerly Unorthodox Chess)

I haven't checked my already-published games yet, but since only one game page of the above two types (Clue Chess) isn't experiencing this, I think it's likely happening with them too. In other words, a system-wide problem.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 12 02:41 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 01:22 AM:

Both of you, please list specific pages this is a problem on.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Apr 12 01:49 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 01:22 AM:

I have two unfinished submissions, but when I try to edit either of them I see "Since this is not a Game Rules page, please move any content here to the top section."

They are both meant to be Game Rules pages, so could someone fix that?

I'm getting the same thing on several of my pages.


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Apr 12 01:22 AM UTC:

I have two unfinished submissions, but when I try to edit either of them I see "Since this is not a Game Rules page, please move any content here to the top section."

They are both meant to be Game Rules pages, so could someone fix that?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 12 01:01 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Thu Apr 11 11:10 PM:

I also changed the color for the vertical bar on blockquotes to the same color to match.

Since I didn't like how light this was in the light scheme, I considered other colors than darkkhaki for --nav-highlight-color, but I kept coming back to darkkhaki for that. So instead I looked for another custom property to use for the color of the vertical bar, and after trying out currentColor, I settled on --visited-link-color. I like how it stands out in each color scheme, and previous comments usually share the feature with visited links of being previously read.


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