Results tagged “font size” from Plurk Skins

We are going to switch gears a little bit. I had planned to make this tutorial about creating rounded corners on the Plurk Message window and begin cleaning up the time line. But after yesterday's changes I have had quite a number of requests come through to devote a little time to the new Search function and further discussion on the fonts. I'll therefore push the other tutorial to a later date and we can work through these two new features of Plurk to get a better handle on what they are doing and how we can manage their behavior better.

The Plurk development team is currently deploying several new features. Although this is merely a guess, it would appear that they are planning an update to the site search criteria and are modifying some of the Cascading Style Sheets. I happened across these while writing the latest tutorial for Plurk Skins. I was in the midst of styling the Plurk messages adding rounded corners, changing backgrounds, and basically messing around. Suddenly things started getting really weird. Weird in my world is a relative perspective. I am like a magnet for the weird so usually this sort of thing doesn't affect me. But when you are messing around with the presentation layer of a web page and suddenly content changes in strange and unusual ways you immediately begin questioning yourself. This is exactly what happened in my case. I modified the background on the response box of a Plurk message and the search box disappeared on the screen and was replaced with a new box pre-populated with "I love plurk". I ran back to my code to see exactly what I had done. Several panicked moments later I realized I was not responsible for that. While I remained confused I decided to continue. I again made what I thought were minor changes to the profile code and this time the font size of Plurk messages increased by 20 percent! Again my initial reaction was, "Now what did I do?" After several minutes of troubleshooting I again realized I didn't do it.