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Old 07-20-2007, 01:14 PM   Glowing usernames Post #1
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Glowing usernames

I know that when evboard upgraded to vBulletin 3.6.1 around Sept. or Oct., the glowing usernames, ribbons and gifts that are still visible in users' profiles were not vivible onposts. Alot of people asked if they were coming back, and there was no clear answer (and then it became a moot point because the board went PS) I would love to see it back. Is there any way this can happen? Does anyone agree with me? I know it has been discussed previously in threads about the upgrade, but I'm making the suggestion that it be brought back.
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Old 07-20-2007, 04:45 PM   Glowing usernames Post #2
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I thinks it's a good idea.
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Old 07-20-2007, 05:23 PM   Glowing usernames Post #3
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:31 PM   Glowing usernames Post #4
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I can't view them anyway I am in firefox.
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Old 02-22-2008, 10:00 PM   Glowing usernames Post #5
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So, we had them for awhile, then they were supposed to be fixed so ppl with glowing black names would be visible, and then everyone just forgot about them Well, I hope glowing user names can be put back on the to-do list. A lot of people bought them in vbplaza but they don't work anymore
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Old 02-22-2008, 10:46 PM   Glowing usernames Post #6
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I bought a glowing username, and it glows in my profile, but not on the actual forum. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to be or not.
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Old 02-23-2008, 12:54 AM   Glowing usernames Post #7
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I bought a glowing username, and it glows in my profile, but not on the actual forum. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to be or not.
I don't think so. I have seen some glowing usernames on the board, so it must work, maybe only certain colors work?
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Old 02-23-2008, 07:18 AM   Glowing usernames Post #8
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A couple things to keep in mind about the glowing usernames is that most of those functions (glow, shadow, a couple others I can't remember) only work in IE browsers and not in FF, Safari, or any others. They use Microsoft custom functions that no one else supports. For example, on the left is IE, the right FF:



See how my username in IE looks better?

That said, however, there are a couple of caveats like you have to buy something other than just glow or else it won't be seen; also there was some issue with a couple of colors (I think the default color, and black?) that has various issues with some of the extras that you could buy. If you have not changed the color of your username, or you changed it before you bought the glow, try buying a new color and see if it appears suddenly.

This is the post from a while back on how to play with colors. I'm guessing that most or all of it still applies, other than maybe the PS stuff, and the demo site link in there doesn't seem to work anymore. It might help (or it might not tell you anything you didn't already know...).
*edit*
Another thing I just noticed which could also be part of what you are seeing. While the effects like shadow or glow may show up in your public profile, they may not show up on your username in posts. Mine isn't showing up in posts but I do see such an effect on someone's title above in this thread. There was an issue in the past with the order in which things were applied to a username between vbPlaza and EvBoard's code; depending on when an effect is applied to the name another application of effects may accidentally remove them. It was (I believe at least partially) fixed after some investigation but I'm betting that it's back now.
*edit # the two*

OK, here's the problem. Warning, html and dhtml gobbledygook incoming!

According to the DHTML information at w3schools there are some functions that do not work unless the background of a target is set to transparent (or, effectively, not defined). However, in the html code here, the board explicity sets for a user's name the background color. See in this code we have defined two sections, one for the vbPlaza stuff, then the second is from the board software itself (look for the two div style items):

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<!-- vbPlaza start   -->
<div id="postmenu_1090957" style="filter:glow(Color=Black,Strength=10); width: 100%;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;padding:2px;">
<!-- vbPlaza end -->
				
                               <!-- <div style="padding:2px;background:#666666;"> -->
				<a rel="nofollow" class="bigusername" href="http://www.evboard.com/member.php?u=20274"><font color="b1a454">Hoopyfrood</font></a>
				<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1090957", true); </script>
				
                                </div>
			</div>
See how in the vbPlaza section, we define the glow effect, but then in the board section we then explicitly set the background color to #666666 (the board's light grey). I tested by removing the background color, and suddenly my glow effect appeared.
A second test I performed was to grab the css sheet and apply that, and it turns out that the explicit declaration of background color for the username isn't necessary. The css sheet seems to apply the correct color behind it. It also doesn't seem to break other browsers like FF, so while they still won't show the glow effect the background color isn't affected either.

BTW, it looks like there is support for the DHTML effects like glow and such in Firefox but the page that has them appears to need to have specific code for doing so by calling an innerHTML function, or having some extra code on the page. My html-Fu isn't good enough to really know what they are getting at, other than it sounds like the browser doesn't do it automatically.

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Old 02-23-2008, 02:03 PM   Glowing usernames Post #9
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I think that would look awesome!!!
I would actually love to do that, with my own user name!
Anything to have it look, alot more creative, and have more of a
special effect look to it!!
I love color, so if anything, I would try to add alot of different colors to it,
but maybe have it look like, its all blending in together!

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Old 02-23-2008, 06:07 PM   Glowing usernames Post #10
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I've seen a few bright green glowing usernames, I think they are kinda hard to read though...I prefer the bold and italic look myself but I don't know what my name would look like italice!
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