Italic comment color

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Should Italic be removed from the PHP comment syntax?

Poll ended at Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:08 pm

Yes
13
81%
No
3
19%
 
Total votes: 16

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Ollie Saunders
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Italic comment color

Post by Ollie Saunders »

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/* Personally I find the italic makes comments harder to read. My suggestion is that italic is removed, possibly make the orange a touch darker or maybe use #999 instead. What do you think?
*/
Edit: Added a poll
Last edited by Ollie Saunders on Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by matthijs »

I agree.
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Post by feyd »

Yeah, I've never liked it when editors used italics, nor here.

I can easily change that however. :) If there's enough interest I'll do it.
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Post by daedalus__ »

Yayeth for the changeth of the italics, matey!
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Post by John Cartwright »

I rather enjoy it as it is. -1 for the change.
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Post by Oren »

+1 +1 +1 +1.....

Well, I guess I can't do that so just: +1 :P

It really makes reading the comments hard. It has always bothered me. If possible, please change it.
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Post by thiscatis »

pro :)
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

Poll has been added
I was worried some people hadn't noticed.
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Post by Weirdan »

Here's a css for Stylish

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("devnetwork.net") {
   .co1, .coMULTI {
      font-style:normal!important;
   }
}

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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I'd say yes to doing away with italics.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

The italics are terrible!

While we're at it...I find my own editor's color scheme quite a bit easier to read:

The font is courier 9pt, colours are as follows:

Reserved words: rgb(0,0,255)

Built-in functions: rgb(255,0,0)

Variables: rgb(0,125,128)

Comments: rgb(0,128,0)

Quotes: rgb(255,0,255)

Numbers: rgb(128,0,128)

:wink: :wink:
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Post by feyd »

I don't think we'll be changing around all the colors. If you want them different, I'd suggest you use the styling addon Weirdan was kind enough to link to.
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Ollie Saunders
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

Do I win?
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Post by feyd »

We're going to let this stew for a bit longer before making a final decision.
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Post by JayBird »

not fussed wither way
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