TheLucid Typo theme (Phase 2)

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#1 Chris Abad on 08.23.06 at 6:00 am

I’d like to see a cookie of the desired color scheme in addition to the format (fixed/fluid). A little more padding on the tag cloud would be nice as well.

#2 fak3r on 08.24.06 at 4:06 pm

My request remains the same, if you ever want to make a WordPress version I’d be happy to test it out. Thanks.

#3 Brent Schooley on 08.27.06 at 3:19 am

I am trying to use the trunk version of the lucid theme on my blog at http://www.sfflcentral.com/blog/ but it appears wrong in all browsers I have tried it with. Your blog shows up correctly in the browsers but mine looks completely wrong. Any ideas why this is occurring?

#4 Peter De Velder on 08.27.06 at 10:58 am

Hi Jamie, nice theme !
It looks like you’re hitting “IE Double Float – Margin”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html. (Strange glitch on upper-right side in IE6.)

Adding “display:inline” should fix it

    * html #content {
        float: left;
        display: inline;
    }

#5 Jamie on 08.27.06 at 1:45 pm

Brent Schooley: check that you are using “this”:http://www.thelucid.com/typo_themes/lucid.zip version.

Peter De Velder: Thanks for that. I will probably loose the float altogether on that div and use a self clearing css rule.

#6 Brent Schooley on 08.30.06 at 3:55 pm

I will try that version out in a bit. Not sure if it is the version I have or not.

On a side note, your theme does not render in IE7 properly at all. It’s definitely not your fault but thought I would point that out. Will Microsoft EVER get it right?

#7 Jamie on 08.31.06 at 11:00 am

Brent: I will look into that. I can’t believe that after so long Microsoft *still* haven’t got things right.

#8 Andrew Montgomery on 08.31.06 at 1:18 pm

You also may want to look it ‘officially’ porting it to mephisto

“This guy”:http://jeremyhubert.com/2006/6/28/lucid-ported-to-mephisto has already done it (mostly)

#9 Brent Schooley on 08.31.06 at 4:40 pm

Yeah it is pretty shameful about IE7. Your theme renders in 4 or 5 really odd looking columns. IE6 even had it better than that for your page. Try out the IE7 RC1 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie . There’s gotta be something _blatantly wrong_ in the rendering engine.

#10 Brent Schooley on 09.06.06 at 3:19 am

Jamie, the theme is still not working for me. I have my blog set up at http://mysite/blog/. Is it the /blog part that is making it not work? What can I do to fix it?

#11 Jamie on 09.06.06 at 8:11 am

Brent: It could well be the sub directory that is the problem as the theme references images a /images/whatever.gif

#12 Brent Schooley on 09.06.06 at 7:54 pm

Alright…well, that probably is it and it also would probably be a bit of a pain to go back and change them all to relative paths. Any reason you went with absolute paths like that?

#13 Jeremy Hubert on 09.20.06 at 9:51 am

That would be great. I’ve ported your theme over to Mephisto (poorly) and I’ll keep checking back here to see if I should update it anytime soon.

Thanks for the great theme.

#14 Jamie on 09.20.06 at 1:10 pm

Jeremy: I’m thinking of moving to Mephisto also. Still need to put by some time for the theme.

#15 Craig on 10.31.06 at 9:00 pm

The theme works great, except I’m trying to figure out how to default the CSS to fluid?

#16 Jim Van Fleet on 11.10.06 at 3:25 pm

For anyone interested, the fix for IE7 is to “update” the Holly Hack by removing the first *

/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
html .clearfix { height: 1%; }
.clearfix { display: block; }
/* End hide from IE-mac */

#17 Jim Van Fleet on 11.11.06 at 1:58 am

Also, for anyone interested in a Mephisto port, contact me or visit http://www.cvreg.org. I’ve done one up and will be making it widely available shortly. Thanks so much, Jamie, for all your work. We appreciate it!

#18 Jamie on 11.11.06 at 4:32 pm

That’s great Jim. I am going to aim to create official Typo, Wordpress and Mephisto versions of the theme (when I finally release them).

#19 Jim Van Fleet on 11.12.06 at 10:54 pm

We’ll be glad to help out however you’d like. We’ll be making the code itself available shortly– we’re still starting the group up, and I have a presentation to prepare for Tuesday!

#20 Jamie on 11.12.06 at 11:19 pm

Thanks for that, I’ll keep you posted on the themes progress.

#21 konus on 11.24.06 at 2:44 pm

Hi!…
I’m plating with Your Lucid Theme. Somthing like this:

function set_theme_options(){
var _color_set = getCookie(COLOR_SET);
var _layout = getCookie(LAYOUT);

if(_color_set!=null) { iq_switch_pref(COLOR_SET, _color_set); }
if(_layout!=null) { iq_switch_pref(LAYOUT, _layout); }
}


Could work to make persistents styles choosed in the preferences bar.

Adding this to the end of file lucid.js

addEvent(window, 'load', set_theme_options, false);


and, of course

setCookie(pref, layout);

in function iq_switch_pref(pref, layout)

Keep your good work!

#22 Jamie on 11.28.06 at 7:31 pm

Konus: Thanks for that, cookies will definitely be implemented in the next release.

#23 Jim Van Fleet on 12.21.06 at 2:22 pm

“CVREG”:http://www.cvreg.org/ has made its “Lucid for Mephisto”:http://cvreg.org/projects/lucid-for-mephisto theme available.

Anyone using it is free to comment on the linked page, and anyone interested in supporting can contact me for commit access.

Might be time to start thinking about a license, Jamie. We really like your theme!

#24 DrAk0 on 06.07.07 at 6:43 am

Hello, thelucid theme does not work with typo 4.1, do you have any release/fix for typo 4.1? thanks.

#25 CM on 06.12.07 at 2:52 pm

Please? Please? Pretty please?

A version for 4.1.x?

#26 Jamie Hill on 07.25.07 at 12:36 am

Finally I have released a version that works with 4.1. You can grab it “here”:http://www.thelucid.com/articles/2007/07/24/thelucid-typo-theme-now-works-with-version-4-1

Thanks all for your patience.

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