Scripting News: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024 Quiet mode for the blogroll # After living with the blogroll on the home page of Scripting News for about a month , and having heard from early testers, I felt that it was demanding too much attention when I was reading stuff on the blog. So I made some time last week to experiment with a subtler sidebar. # In Quiet Mode, the blogroll doesn't call attention to itself until you click on it. Then its background changes from neutral to white. That's the equivalent of shining a spotlight on it. Also the borders become blue to indicate that the browser's focus is on the blogroll. # I wanted to do more to tone it down. So, in Quiet Mode the title moves up and to the left, and is in a much smaller font, boldface, nicely visible and stands off from the list, but doesn't call your attention to it. It's there when you want to know more. # You may want to call it something other than a blogroll, btw. If you'r...