 |
|
|
|
Welcome to the Invelos forums. Please read the forum
rules before posting.
Read access to our public forums is open to everyone. To post messages, a free
registration is required.
If you have an Invelos account, sign in to post.
|
|
|
|
|
Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Contribution Discussion |
Page:
1 2 3 4  Previous Next
|
|
Boy, I Hate this |
|
|
|
|
|
| Author |
Message |
| Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I personally wouldn't want any colors added... or any other notation for them. In my opinion just do as most do now and just ignore any change in colored text.
Plus there is a downside to color text. You get a color that matches or is even close to matching the background color of the overview field and that text will be between hard and impossible to read. This matches with my sight of this. |
| | Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'll paraphrase my thoughts from the other thread where this was discussed... Color is highlighting, but that isn't the same thing. It's interesting how, before we got real bold and italics – which i like, and only had single quotes most people simply knew what to do with the quotes. They put them around bold and italic sections, only rarely straying into marking colored text, or text of a different size. It was seldom an issue in my experience. People just got it. Now color should equal bold? Why not italics? It is every bit as arbitrary a choice in highlighting color. I want someone to tell me how to highlight this...  | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Tweeter for the WIN! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
Cliff |
| | Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | | Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Fully agree with Pete and Skip. Please NO colour formatting. We have cover scans for that. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
Does anyone have other suggestions other than quotation marks? Yes, I have a suggestion. Ignore the colour.  |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tweeter: Quote:
I'll paraphrase my thoughts from the other thread where this was discussed...
Color is highlighting, but that isn't the same thing. It's interesting how, before we got real bold and italics – which i like, and only had single quotes most people simply knew what to do with the quotes. They put them around bold and italic sections, only rarely straying into marking colored text, or text of a different size. It was seldom an issue in my experience. People just got it.
Now color should equal bold? Why not italics? It is every bit as arbitrary a choice in highlighting color.
I want someone to tell me how to highlight this...
He shoots...he scores....GOOOOOOALLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Skip  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 693 |
| | Posted: | | | | As I said, Ken must clarify this issue once and for all. Otherwise all your words are meaningless.
Your argument is no better than the YES voters, Sorry.
Some say it's gray and others say it's not. Only Ken can decide which is right or wrong... and why. | | | | October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York. |
| | Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can't find it right now but I seem to recall that Ken and/or Gerri did confirm that colour does not necessarily equal bold. |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
Quoting goblinsdoitall:
Quote:
Quoting surfeur51:
Quote:
Quoting Staid S Barr:
Quote:
If someone wants to see the colors, look at the back cover scan.
No need to make the overview more complicated.
If someone wants to see the bold and italics, look at the back cover scan.
No need to make the overview more complicated.
If someone wants to read the Overview, look at the backcover scan.
BTW: If someone wants to know who was involved in the movie, he's always welcome to actually watch the movie.
No need to make the program interface more complicated
...
What exactly was DVDProfiler good for?? 
 
An overview is useful for its contents, not for its make-up. Same for the other items. You are correct, of course. It's just that I couldn't stop myself from completing the cascade I quoted. Sorry for sometimes having a real strange sense of humour.  But I thought that the smileys at bottom made it clear that the post wasn't meant serious at all, seems I was wrong (... again). | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 | | | | Last edited: by Lewis_Prothero |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting liorb22: Quote:
As I said, Ken must clarify this issue once and for all. Otherwise all your words are meaningless.
Your argument is no better than the YES voters, Sorry.
Some say it's gray and others say it's not. Only Ken can decide which is right or wrong... and why. I am sorry, but I don't see how there can be any confusion in a sentence that says, "use the Bold and/or Italic features for any words...that are bold and/or italic." It doesn't say, "words that are highlighted," so I am at a complete loss here.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting liorb22:
Quote:
As I said, Ken must clarify this issue once and for all. Otherwise all your words are meaningless.
Your argument is no better than the YES voters, Sorry.
Some say it's gray and others say it's not. Only Ken can decide which is right or wrong... and why.
I am sorry, but I don't see how there can be any confusion in a sentence that says, "use the Bold and/or Italic features for any words...that are bold and/or italic." It doesn't say, "words that are highlighted," so I am at a complete loss here. I agree 100%... I don't know how it could be written any clearer then that. | | | | Pete |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting liorb22:
Quote:
As I said, Ken must clarify this issue once and for all. Otherwise all your words are meaningless.
Your argument is no better than the YES voters, Sorry.
Some say it's gray and others say it's not. Only Ken can decide which is right or wrong... and why.
I am sorry, but I don't see how there can be any confusion in a sentence that says, "use the Bold and/or Italic features for any words...that are bold and/or italic." It doesn't say, "words that are highlighted," so I am at a complete loss here. I agree completely, Martian. It is clear, it is obvious and those claiming otherwise....no, I won't say it. I will only say we have NEVER EVER allowed for color in ANY way. And I hope for the reasons I have explained that we NEVER EVER will. The fights of the past will look like a picnic in the park, if we ever go to color and or font and/or size. Liorb, my friend, no matter how much you protest it doesn't wash with the rules and never has. As I havve noted by your logic we can enter any data we wish into the database with the flawed argument of it's not covered by the Rules ot "the Rules don't say we can't. It's almost as strange as some of the other Overview arguments, like those who believe that THEY can correct distributor typos because THEY in their infinitely wise and legendary (in their own mind) can determine what is a typo. Skip Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 693 |
| | Posted: | | | | Skip
Personally I never contributed nor had the chance to vote on a "coloring" issue. I'm just saying that I understand the logic of contributing a Bold text as a temporary measure for a colored text. That's all. Nothing less and nothing more. | | | | October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I understand the logic, BUT it's outside the Rules and this is not likely to be abny form of temporary issue. This was discussed 5 years ago, and everyone was on the same page, Bold and Italics fine, Colors, fonts, size, NO, for exactly the same reasons i have outlined and if I recall correctly it was unanimous or near unanimous. The rules were intended to cut down arguments NOT encourage them, which we felt colors, font and size would do and unfortunately the nature of these forums has proven that concern to be spot on and then some.. Is it Navy Blue or Marine Blue,is it Re or Red-Orange, what size is the font Joe thinks its 12pt, Mike thinks it's 10pt and so on. No the Rules do not allow for any characteristic based upon color, THAT is clear, and while Ken may have weighed in on it at some point, it certainly is neither required or even necessary on this issue, the Rules speak loudly for themselves on this one.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
You are correct, of course.
It's just that I couldn't stop myself from completing the cascade I quoted.
Sorry for sometimes having a real strange sense of humour.
But I thought that the smileys at bottom made it clear that the post wasn't meant serious at all, seems I was wrong (... again). No problem, I read your post as a joke. But I also wanted to make my position entirely clear, since I know I am often a bit cryptic. | | | | Hans |
|
|
|
Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Contribution Discussion |
Page:
1 2 3 4 Previous Next
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |