Headers...?

[musashius]

Y'know how we used to have headers?

Yeah, it was a bad idea for people who kinda put a lot of stuff in it *cough* Jeff *cough* . But perhaps we can bring them back just for people who use different colors when posting?

I used to use that grey kinda color for my posts... but then I realized how tedious it was, having to copy & paste the code everytime.

Yeah, I know... you could argue that it'd be their (the people who use colors) problem to deal with... but it'd just be more convenient, in my opinion. *shrugs*

As for the problem from when we used to have them (ie. too big of pictures, too much stuff, et cetera), maybe we can enforce a rule that you're not allowed to put pictures in the headers and that the headers are only for colored text.

Your thoughs, please.

[The Man]

I, for one, would like a single tag that allows us to input a custom colour. That would be three bytes in the database, and it surely wouldn't be that hard to implement, even though it would require creating another new entry in every user's profile in the EoFF user database.

Plus, there is always the possibility that people will want to change post colours along with their profile. It would be a lot more convenient to do that if we could change just one number.

Peace
The Man

[crono_logical]

If headers are enabled, I'd suggest disabling of HTML in them, and only using vB code, since that'll stop people messing about with tables and such then

[musashius]

Originally posted by crono_logical
If headers are enabled, I'd suggest disabling of HTML in them, and only using vB code, since that'll stop people messing about with tables and such then

Yeah, I agree, as well. But does vB code allow color codes (ie. #000000 and so forth)?

I think that if we ever enable headers again, only the coding for the color of text you want should be allowed.

Or perhaps somewhere along the lines of what The Man said. Maybe there's a hack that puts the code before someone starts the post and he/she can edit that color in his/her profile?

[The Man]

[color=7eb7ed]

Seems to work fine for me. If I want Britty Blue, for example, I can use the [color=value of Britty blue, which happens to be 7eb7ed, if memory serves] tag to open it, and [/color] to close it, though that's not necessary in a header, I guess. Still, vB code likes there to be an opening and a close to every tag. Maybe that could be worked around for a header or something. I dunno.

Peace
The Man

[Dr Unne]

God almighty, please don't bring back headers in any form. I'm begging here.

[musashius]

Originally posted by Dr Unne
God almighty, please don't bring back headers in any form. I'm begging here.

Aw c'mon, Unney. Be nice. =P

It's only gonna be there for people who use colored text in their posts. It's not like we're going to have huge pictures before posts and shtuff... I hope.

[The Man]

There could also be the option to disable the display of headers, much like there's an option to disable the display of sigs. I don't think it would be that big of a deal, myself. Besides, the colouring of text and individualised selection of font face isn't really that horrible, as long as people don't default their font face to Zapf Dingbats and their font colour to solid black. But I couldn't imagine that there wouldn't be a rule against such things, and I also can't imagine why anyone would want to use such ridiculous settings for any reason at all, so yeah.

Peace
The Man

[Dr Unne]

I don't care, I'm not part of Staff any more, they'll decide whatever they want. I just remember last time we had them and it sucked. Looking at 400 different colored posts will be bad enough. The MB will once again be all about showing off your crap in your posts instead of actually keeping up what little conversation we have around here now. Little kids and spam junkies flock to MBs where they can show off their pretty colors. All for what? What purpose does adding colors serve other than to give Unne a headache and make the MB unreadable?

[The Man]

Well, then, if users were given the option of disabling the viewing of the custom post colours, then everyone could be happy. I hope.

Peace
The Man

[Agent Proto]

¬_¬ What's this about mentioning my name with lots of stuff in headers?

[musashius]

Hmm... that's true, Unne. I never really thought about the fact that people would just want to show off their colors.

EDIT: Just messin' with you Jeff. But I remember when you had that pic of that dude in your header that would usually screw up the tables if you had a short post. =P [ please don't kill me ]

[Loony BoB]

Let your true colours shine...

...nah. >=P I imagine The Man would have the OOC tag there. xD And some people would use spoilers, and that would piss me off to no end.

[The Man]

OOC:	Originally posted by Loony BoB I imagine The Man would have the OOC tag there. xD What you say? "You have no chance to survive make" *gets shot by a sniper*

Seriously, we could disable the use of such menaces as the OOC tag or the spoiler tag for use in headers. All we're really asking for is a font colour tag, a font size tag, and a font face tag. Er, I think. Anyway, if someone's header became annoying, I'm sure that the staff could get them to change it.

Peace
The Man

[Endless]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think having headers was a hack that has not been rewritten with the various upgrades, or maybe messing with the templates + the user profile fields.

anyway I don't find them that essential, or we'll look like Acmlm's.