Rounded tabs in the blue and green?

November 20, 2007 8:01 PM

We've still got the CSS rounded tab corners in MetaTalk, so I assume they're not breaking anything - can we have them in the blue and green now? They're purty. Thanks.

Also, in the iPhone browser, the text-size of the "Home", "About", "Archives", &c links in the per-site nav menu is too big, as is the text-size of the links in all but the selected tab.

posted by nicwolff to Feature Requests at 8:01 PM (25 comments total)

My iPhone browser looks fine in landscape mode. There's a little bit of line wrap in links but it's pretty easy to navigate and use.

Is there a way to specify iphone-only sizes in CSS?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:16 PM on November 20, 2007

First hit on Google for 'iphone-specific css'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:52 PM on November 20, 2007

Don't ban me.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:53 PM on November 20, 2007 [2 favorites]

The cost of scissors required to round off all those corners is going to be enormous. The server might not be able to handle the vast scissor-load increase.
posted by Rhomboid at 8:55 PM on November 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Don't jrun with scissors. LOLIDONTGETIT.
posted by mullacc at 8:57 PM on November 20, 2007

I'll volunteer for the cutting crew.
posted by kyleg at 9:38 PM on November 20, 2007

What? Rounded tabs in MeTa? Why don't I get this visual treat?
posted by spiderskull at 9:43 PM on November 20, 2007

Oh, nevermind. You guys are hatin' on Opera users.

Scissors? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. On a related note, how much bandwidth will you save, since you'll have fewer pixels on the borders now? I mean, that's got to add up to like, what, hundreds of dollars a year? Don't you guys pay per pixel?
posted by spiderskull at 9:44 PM on November 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Actually, their biggest bandwidth cost is sending all that whitespace in the database out over and over again.
posted by trondant at 10:22 PM on November 20, 2007

No rounding in the plain theme. So sad.
posted by Rumple at 12:44 AM on November 21, 2007

I would like my tabs to have elaborate fluted cornices kthx.
posted by Eideteker at 4:04 AM on November 21, 2007

Eideteker, just include artNouveaux.css
posted by jouke at 5:36 AM on November 21, 2007

do not forget to round in the plain theme. also, fix the new tab/window opening on logo click in plain theme. also, gargoyles.
posted by quonsar at 6:23 AM on November 21, 2007

Yes, gargoyles!
include gothic.css
It will be so cool to see rainwater spouting from the metafilter browser.
posted by jouke at 6:31 AM on November 21, 2007

The ecofriendly thing to do is to put maggots on the tabs and let them round the edges naturally. Do you know how much energy it takes to make a pair of scissors??

/posting from a wooden computer run by well-fed squirrels
posted by languagehat at 6:40 AM on November 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Has there ever been a design a metafilter theme contest? Because that would be pretty fucking rad.
posted by empath at 7:23 AM on November 21, 2007

Has there ever been a design a metafilter theme contest?

Yup.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 8:16 AM on November 21, 2007

...or, rather, that was a "design MetaFilter proper" contest.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 8:17 AM on November 21, 2007

Where can we find the results? A quick scan didn't reveal them. :(
posted by TheNewWazoo at 9:30 AM on November 21, 2007

On the front page. The contest was three years ago.

Although, if you want to read about it, you can see results here.
posted by koeselitz at 9:52 AM on November 21, 2007

Most of those links are dead though.
posted by IndigoRain at 10:28 AM on November 21, 2007

/posting from a wooden computer run by well-fed squirrels

Intel Sciuridae Inside?
posted by quin at 11:19 AM on November 21, 2007

Has there ever been a design a metafilter theme contest? Because that would be pretty fucking rad.

Matt has recently said that one of the features being worked on it to open up the ability to let us write our own custom stylesheets for the site, followed by some way of voting/ranking the favorites. I'm not holding my breath, but if and when, that'll be totally cool. As long as he allows us to use images in the stylesheets.

I may have dreamed this, but I'm pretty sure he said it recently.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:05 PM on November 21, 2007

If you dreamed it, I'm seriously worried, because I remember it too.

*checks under bed*
posted by dg at 12:36 AM on November 22, 2007

What rounded corners? No love for Safari, either?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:12 AM on November 22, 2007