Last modified: 2010-05-15 14:36:11 UTC
Curerntly this message shows in red text, but that is not enough to make me always notice it. I would prefer something like very large, red, flashing text.
Yuck! I would strongly disagree with this; having something *too* garish would put people off using the preview button, when we actually want it to be used *as much as possible*, to avoid annoying mistakes. Besides which, if you clicked the button marked "Show preview", you get a preview, surely that's obvious (OK, you might forget, but really, that's not the software's fault). That said, maybe it would be OK to make it a little larger - or perhaps if it were styled with a CSS class, rather than HTML elements, you could override it with all sorts of over the top styling in your personal CSS ([[User:<name_of_user>/<name_of_skin>.css]]).
(In reply to comment #1) > Yuck! I would strongly disagree with this; having something *too* garish would > put people off using the preview button, when we actually want it to be used *as > much as possible*, to avoid annoying mistakes. Besides which, if you clicked the > button marked "Show preview", you get a preview, surely that's obvious (OK, you > might forget, but really, that's not the software's fault). > > That said, maybe it would be OK to make it a little larger - or perhaps if it > were styled with a CSS class, rather than HTML elements, you could override it > with all sorts of over the top styling in your personal CSS > ([[User:<name_of_user>/<name_of_skin>.css]]). But it's precisely when doing multiple previews that I'll forget to finally save it. I agree it's not the software's fault. It's strictly a matter of making the software compensate for habituation of a user.
This should properly be in <nowiki><p class = "error">...</p></nowiki>. When that is done, then you will be able to adjust your CSS file to display it however you like.
<marquee><blink><font size="+200">I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX since there seems to be a general acceptance of the current discreetness of this message.</font></blink></marquee>
Where is the "general acceptance of the current discreetness of this message"? I don't think that anybody (besides Spalding Fernando) wants it to blink. But it should still be done properly with CSS, so that people can set it to display however works best for them. Doing the preview warning with proper CSS instead of deprecated HTML font markup is a pretty fair feature request that is supported by the discussion here and resolves the OP's problems.
