Re: hard to read grayed-out comments

On 13.04.2016 at 08:56, Mike Griffiths wrote: > On 12 April 2016 at 20:14, Dave Heq <daveheq@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For some reason the designers of the function pages decided to gray out >> that last half (?) of the comments in the section unless I hover my mouse >> over them, making it hard to read or skim while scrolling or doing a text >> search. >> >> http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php >> >> This is adding unnecessary work or difficulty trying to find answers; in >> this case I was simply trying to determine if adding the function in a >> __construct in a class would cause problems. > > You'll notice the colour of the comments directly relates to the comments' > score. The bottom comment in your screenshot has a score of -8, which > means a relatively large number of people believe their comment to be > incorrect or irrelevant. It's deliberately hard to read, because we don't > want you to pay too much attention to poor comments. > > We try and moderate comments as best as possible, removing the worst > offenders regularly, but some remain for a while given the huge number of > pages and comments within. Well said, Mike. :) Anyhow, I wanted to suggest that the styling could be overridden by adding a custom stylesheet to the browser, if really desired. However, I've learned that the opacity of those notes is added via JavaScript, and I wonder why this isn't done via CSS. -- Christoph M. Becker