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Grey Area
07:56 / 11.05.04
First off, if anyone thinks this is not a good idea then feel free to remove this topic.

Copy and paste (or memorise and write) the line below into your new post. Insert the required colour code and type your text in the space marked for the purpose:

<b style="font-weight: normal; color:#INSERT COLOUR;">REPLACE THIS TEXT</b>

Voila, your text is now invisible unless someone highlights it. Use with caution and responsibility.

Convo, P&H, Creation and Gathering:
Dark: ADB8C5
Light: BCC4CF

Headshop:
Dark: ACA4DF
Light: BFB8E5

Laboratory:
Dark: 9EC1DC
Light: B7D1E6

Switchboard:
Dark: 8CCEBD
Light: A3D8CA

Temple:
Dark: B9D992
Light: C6E3A3

AF&D
Dark: CCA1D9
Light: D9BAE3

Books:
Dark: DB9EBE
Light: E5BBCF

Comics:
Dark: EE98A2
Light: F0A7AF

FTV&T
Dark: E5BC8D
Light: E8CCA4

Music:
Dark: E1D799
Light: E9E2B3
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:09 / 11.05.04
Is this working?

Works on the preview screen...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:02 / 11.05.04
The only worry I've got about this is that there's nothing to indicate when text is being hidden. Is the empty line between paragraphs there because that's how the person likes to format their posts, or is it some hidden text?
It's some hidden text.
See what I mean?
 
 
Grey Area
15:28 / 11.05.04
If someone was to use this technique, then they should make people aware of it, and not just segue into 'invisible text' mode. Here is one I made earlier.
 
 
sleazenation
15:38 / 11.05.04
The difference is that E randy's text does not appear when highlighted on when copied and pasted into something else...
 
 
Grey Area
15:43 / 11.05.04
Odd...it appears for me, both in Opera and IE6.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
16:32 / 11.05.04
Copy-pasting works for me in Mozilla as well... which browser are you using?
 
 
sleazenation
16:49 / 11.05.04
it appears on safari - but not on IE5 for mac the browser i use at work...
 
 
Tom Coates
22:13 / 11.05.04
PLEASE don't do this! I'm sure I can find another option that's better if I put my mind to it.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:51 / 11.05.04
I know we're trying to do stuff differently from other boards, but the standard method of spoiler quotes works about as well as I think it ever could - mark a check box, the board sticks the code in for you and marks it as spoiler text so that everyone knows it's there.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
07:25 / 12.05.04
The code to make it black on a black background might be better, and make it more obvious that there is something written there...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:50 / 06.06.05
Bumping this one up because it's currently more useful than the other spoilers-related thread doing the rounds.

So, we've got the option presened here - making all signs of text invisible - or the one in this thread - sticking a great ugly lump of black space in the middle of a thread. If it came down to a choice between the two, I'd take the first over the second any day of the week.

If it's got to be done manually, the only solution I can see to the issue of knowing where the text actually is would be to do $$something like this$$ - indicate spoiler text with a recognised identifier.

Maybe non-moderators could use the black masking style and then moderators alter it to the invisible style by editing posts? That's going to be a shitload of work if people start spoilerising all over the place, of course.

Oo. Nother suggestion. How does using the alternating colours work? Having spoilers in the dark forum colour when in light posts, and vice versa.

Test: Dark on light.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:51 / 06.06.05
Test 2: Light on dark.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:53 / 06.06.05
I think that works pretty well, no? It's easy to see that there's something typed there, allowing moderators to weed out offending text should any appear, but actually reading it takes a lot more effort, still hiding the spoilers but without those horrible black stripes making the board look like a schoolkid's English essay.
 
 
w1rebaby
15:06 / 06.06.05
I can read that pretty well, and even if my eyes were worse I'd still probably catch a few words. It's got to be unreadable unless you do something - click a button, highlight the text, whatever.

Something like this would be good, though I doubt it will work properly if I just post it - it bloody shouldn't anyway...

(<b onclick="document.getElementById('spoiler').style.display = 'block'" style="cursor: pointer;">click here for spoiler</b>

<i style="display: none;" id="spoiler">Jesus dies in the end</i>

you click on the spoiler and some text appears

trying it just for kicks:

(click here for spoiler)

 
 
w1rebaby
15:09 / 06.06.05
bloody hell, it does work here - allowing Javascript in posts could potentially be very annoying...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:10 / 06.06.05
Sorry to say, but that really hurts my eyes. A couple of paragraphs of it would be readable enough to risk spoilage, but i-Dish enough to burn out retinas. The black-on-black is ugly, but it has the advantage of:

a) being universally applicable - it fits every forum equally well without having to change the code

and

b) being equal in efficacy - that is, your experience of it is unaffected by how good you are at reading particular colour combinations.
 
 
grant
15:45 / 06.06.05
Fridge, that's totally cool and a little bit scary.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:08 / 06.06.05
Perhaps my biggest complaint with the blacked-out blocks is that they're *so* noticable that they'll become the focal point of any thread they appear in - you're not going to be able to read the meat of the text without constantly being disctracted by the great chunk of black at the corner of your eye. It's annoying the hell out me already and it's only in the one thread so far.

Just as another test: how does this look?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:11 / 06.06.05
And for the alternate post colour: this one. Like a combination of the two styles.

Personally, I could live with either this, the 'invisible with $$ indicators' or fridge's 'click for spoiler' method, providing that whatever we had was only available through an option button or the like, and the ability to manually code it yourself disabled.
 
 
w1rebaby
17:08 / 06.06.05
On Safari at least, I can't read the highlighted text in your above example; the highlight background is light blue and the light text on top of that is pretty much illegible.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:13 / 06.06.05
Oh, that's a shame - it works fine in Firefox and IE.
 
 
w1rebaby
17:38 / 06.06.05
Expanding on the above, what about something like

[+] [-] Spoiler

where you have both hide and reveal functions?

None of this works without JS, of course, and some older browsers won't do it either.
 
 
w1rebaby
17:43 / 06.06.05
Oh, incidentally, the black on black doesn't highlight very well on Safari either, though it's a bit better than the grey on grey.
 
  
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