Blockquote visibility

[musyc]

Title:
Blockquote visibility

Area:
Site scemes

Summary:
Blockquotes are difficult to visually identify in site-scheme pages.

Description:
Currently, site-scheme comment pages display blockquotes with a small indent (15px by my browser). In most instances, this indent is unnoticeable, leading viewers to not even realize that a blockquote exists in the post, especially if they are linked to an entry directly rather than viewing it on their reading page. This can become a problem when posters attempt to quote material from other posters or blogs - the current behavior does not immediately make it obvious the statements were quotes from a different person. (I've been horribly lost in several meta/essay posts until I managed to see the tiny indent.) I'd like to see a much larger indent or some sort of visual identifier (thin border, slightly different color to background?) on blockquotes.

Poll #5018 Blockquote visibility

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
46 (83.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (5.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.8%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (9.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[denise]

For cross-browser compatability, we actually strip all styling with a CSS reset before adding it all back, so leaving the browser default in place isn't an option!

[faithofone]

So that Dw looks as close to exactly the same in each browser as it can?

[denise]

Yeah, exactly. There are a lot of various little browser quirks.

[faithofone]

I spend so much of my life trying to fix the stupidity that is the way Internet Explorer renders elements. I've even served different content based upon the user agent, and it is just a nightmare. The idea of just saying "screw it, let me just redo this from the start the way I want!" has never occurred to me. From a designer's approach, I kind of like it.

But as regards to my vote... Then I vote to increase the margin size to somewhere in the 4em to 6em range.

[fu]

If you haven't seen it already, check out Eric Meyer's reset.css

:)

[faithofone]

slick! thanks for the link