Background color for caution blocks in the Handbook

Steve Craver scraver at gsd-usa.com
Sat Mar 5 22:48:02 UTC 2011


Sorry I should have said Warren Block.  Sorry Warren.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 14:17, Steve Craver <scraver at gsd-usa.com> wrote:

> I would like to suggest using darker print to contrast with the yellow.  I
> see Glenn Barber beat me to it.  But yes commit it.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:22, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:11:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
>> > On 3/5/11 12:02 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> On 4.3.2011 23:28, Glen Barber wrote:
>> > >>> Hi all,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> While looking through the new HAST documentation in the Handbook, it
>> > >>> occurred to me that we don't have any special highlighting for
>> 'caution'
>> > >>> tags.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I think maybe it would be good to have the caution sections stand
>> out a
>> > >>> bit, since those sections might contain the makings of a foot canon
>> if
>> > >>> the user is not careful.
>> > >>
>> > >> Generally, I think it's a good idea; the only question is what color
>> > >> to choose. Well, I don't really care that much, but make sure to not
>> > >> let this go into a bikeshed discussion ;-)
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, staying away from a bikeshed would be nice, though there is some
>> > painting involved here. ;)
>> >
>> > > Red is already used for something, notes I think.  Yellow for caution
>> > > seems appropriate.
>> >
>> > I was originally hesitant to use yellow to avoid causing visual pain
>> > when reading.  How about the colors I have here:
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.glenbarber.us/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-hast.html
>>
>> Some kind of thick yellow outline for the box, with think black outlines
>> for the yellow line, might work.  That might require doubling up on divs
>> around your warnings, though, which is more than just using CSS -- so you
>> should probably ignore this idea.
>>
>> As long as the colors you've selected do not conflict with other uses of
>> the same colors, I'm happy with it.  Your version of the bikeshed looks
>> awesome to me.
>>
>> I'm feeling too lazy to check on whether there are conflicting uses of
>> the same colors.
>>
>> --
>> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>>
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