Two more customizable style features

[suncat]

Title:
Two more customizable style features

Area:
styles

Summary:
I'd like to see more/all styles have customize options for using the journal title in the browser page title and for declaring custom colors for the navigation strip.

Description:
I've seen both of these features in existing styles. I've looked a little into the code, and they didn't seem to be too difficult.

1) The usual page title that appears in the browser title bar uses the account name. So have the option to use one's journal title for the page title. I only recall seeing this feature in "Zesty" among the published available styles.

2) By default, we're given a couple of choices for the navigation strip. But at least one style, "Bases", uses the colors of the theme on the navigation strip. I'd like this option more widely available.

Poll #4748 Two more customizable style features

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (38.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (10.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
13 (22.8%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (26.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.8%)

Comments

[denise]

Just a note, 1 is a duplicate of something else I just let out of the suggestions queue:

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/458312.html

So, this is for discussion of option 2.

[zvi]

Having people mod the colors of the navstrip is an accessibility issue. Because the navstrip is the same on every journal, people can always find a way to switch to their personal journal style if yours is something they can't look at or navigate, for whatever reason. Because the navstrip works so well, I don't know that our users have the ?style=mine bookmarklets or userscripts that were really common for handling that on LJ, and we don't yet have the paid feature that makes all journal pages everywhere show up in one's own style.

[suncat]

I never thought of the accessibility issue. Does that one style, "Bases", manifest this problem?

[gchick]

Voting against for accessibility reasons, with the understanding that the vote is on #2 only.

[faithofone]

this

[musyc]

I don't mind if people alter the nav strip themselves through CSS or whatnot, but I really dislike having it customized as part of the site layouts. That's actually the one thing I find horribly annoying about "Bases".

[ratcreature]

Yes, I hate that as well. My navigation strip ought to remain in readable colors all the time, not become green on purple or something on a whim of the journal I look at.

[cesy]

I know that people will still be able to mod the navstrip with custom CSS, but I don't think we should encourage them by making it part of the standard options.

Don't want to risk delay in bug getting implemented, but...

[marahmarie]

http://matgb.dreamwidth.org/372682.html?style=mine#cutid1

For any of you with a paid account and a theme layer to add the code to.

btw, this addresses issue #1, not #2)

[noracharles]

I don't like it when people mod their navigation strips. I consider the navigation strip mine, not theirs, and I think any modding of it ought only apply to people's own view of it.

I need to be able to find the links and buttons on it quickly, and not to have to use a java bookmarklet to find my own style.

But when we get persistent style=mine it won't be an issue any longer, so I can tolerate it until then.

[azurelunatic]

Hm. I like the idea of the navigation strip matching the journal, for consistency for the journal owner, and consistency for non-users looking at someone's journal. (Do people who aren't logged in see a navigation strip?)

In my dream implementation:
#1 priority: the navbar viewing settings of the logged in user, controlled in user settings. It can be: Default, Match Journal Style, Specific Colors. There is a link to the Styles area to set Journal Style Navbar Colors. Default gets you one of the light/dark navbars, overriding whatever's set on the journal (easy, accessible). Match Journal Style gets you something that matches the journal (aesthetically pleasing, owner control). Specific Colors overrides whatever's set on the journal, but in your choice of colors that don't make you scream (custom, accessible).
#2 priority: the settings for the navbar on the specific journal that is being viewed. People control this for their own journals in the Styles area. This is for their own journal, for them, people who are logged out, and people who are viewing "Match Journal Style" navbar.

[sofiaviolet]

+1

[zvi]

This sounds like a great idea.

[suncat]

I like this too.

Maybe it's because I am not a LJ refugee, but I rarely use the nav bar. About the only thing I use it for is the site search, and so it never occurred to me how others use it or perceive it. I did, just now because of this discussion, test out the "style = mine" option. That does use your own choice for the nav bar as well as everything else.

[suncat]

BTW, yes you see the nav bar if you're not logged in. You get somewhat different options like "join Dreamwidth". But some of the familiar ones are there like the site search. It appears in the style chosen by the journal you're looking at.

[faevii]

Great idea!

[stasha2g]

+1

[poulpette]

My with change is for this. Which I think would fit well with bug 630