ie themes | The Coffeehouse

jamie

so now that chrome has 20 ugly themes... and firefox has 20 thousand (ugly themes) ... and both browsers are trying to rid the world of rectangular - unchangeable toolbars... what is IE doing in this regard?

...not that i havent brought this up before ...but... well?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Well, IE (up to and including) version 6 was "skinnable" if you mean how the Rebar control could have a bitmap background, and the button images can be changed with your favourite reshacking tool.

IE8's tabs are procedurally drawn (unlike IE7's which were normal bitmap resources) which means they aren't skinnable anymore. I also don't think its rebars support bitmap backgrounds either.

But then again, I'd prefer it if IE were a simple standard-issue browser. If they added skinning support it'd make things hellish for helpdesk people having to deal with idiot user's sense of what makes a good skin.

jamie

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 5th @ 7:56 PM

ah the ol' if you give them the option - they will destroy it... idea

id love to "skin ie - although as you say - they have tied it to the useless windows "adjust windows colors" or whatever it is... "washed out mode?"

i want my tabs up top - i want full screen with no status bar - ever - and i want to be able to use my css scrollbar stuff to change browser colours

i dont really care to change the bg behind the icons - UNLESS i can change the icons and bg

id also like to bust IE up into pieces - floating toolbar - / floating windows

id settle for a css that does more than scroll bar colours

edit: last check ie was 67% ... 17% to go to NOT CARE

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 8:02 PM

Why not just use Firefox in the first place?

jamie

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 5th @ 8:33 PM

i have been.. i hate it. i want "good" ie back

**edit** FF is great for touch screen computer cause of "true fullscreen" plugin

ps - dont get me started on seperate browser processes.. which to me means - if you have 12 tabs - ie either bombs or implodes or worse!

(on close)

jamie

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 8:35 PM

anyway..yadda.. i digress....

chrome and ff have themes. let's start there. where are they for IE?

next up - true full screen: where is it? bruce?

..eagle? Tongue Out

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 9:44 PM

where are they for IE?

There aren't. You might as well get used to that.

next up - true full screen: where is it?

Tools>Toolbars uncheck Status Bar, press F11. Or you mean something else?

jamie

In reply to PaoloM

#Aug 5th @ 10:09 PM

hmmm.. i dunno about that... google and firefox have themes... i give you guys about ... 4 weeks till an announcement Tongue Out

* ..and dont get me started about "true" full screen ... lol

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 10:19 PM

i give you guys about ...

*They* guys, you mean? Smiley

* ..and dont get me started about "true" full screen ... lol

Actually, get started. What do you mean by "trye full screen"?

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 10:19 PM

* ..and dont get me started about "true" full screen ... lol

Actually, you can just hit F11, then, move your mouse to the top of the screen to have the addressbar fade in and right-click on an empty area in either the favorites or tab bar. Here in the now opened context menu, click on Status Bar, to hide it. Now click on an empty area on the website you're currently viewing and the only thing you're going to be bothered with are the scrollbars on the right, if the website exceeds your screen height.