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Razor
As soon as I saw this posted on the Adium website, I wanted to have a crack a porting it. Its such a simple template, but fits in with most Visual Styles. Ive tried my best to stick to the original.

Here's the preview:

user posted image

10 colour schemes with a Special Edition "Luna Element" style.
All coded with XHTML and CSS.

Released Now! Download here.

** UPDATES **

- Implimented grouped timestamp
agt
April Fools..?

Looks awesome razor
Blueke
Please add a Blue/Blue version biggrin.gif

looks nice though wink.gif
eNeon
Beautiful job! Can't wait for this one. smile.gif

I think that grey/blue gonna be my dream! biggrin.gif
NeoXY
looks very nice...biggrin.gif
bangbang023
good grief you people are making me switch templates every other day tongue.gif
pcw
Looks very sleek razor! smile.gif

What vs are you using in the preview btw? Link?
Scott Evo
Looks nice...... sure. thumbs_up.gif
fishie
WOWY ZOWY (:
MarcoAntonio
QUOTE(pcw @ Mar 31 2005, 01:11)
Looks very sleek razor! smile.gif

What vs are you using in the preview btw? Link?
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Luna Element...
YBG
Looks pretty cool..
nazgul
Been waiting for this for a while, looks awesome.
spex04
Nice. ^ Yea i've been waiting for someone to port this too. Can't wait thumbs_up.gif cool.gif
Dazzla
I've never even heard of IE-View confused.gif something to do with Miranda? I've been out of the loop too long!
Keito
QUOTE(bangbang023 @ Mar 31 2005, 00:48)
good grief you people are making me switch templates every other day tongue.gif
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lol there's indeed lots of IE-view templates being made these days biggrin.gif
Hidea
biggrin.gif we're on rolll!
insanekiwi
awesome. i saw it in the aprils dtp thread. kustom was using it tongue.gif
PaulCabby
QUOTE(Dazzla @ Mar 31 2005, 18:30)
I've never even heard of IE-View confused.gif something to do with Miranda? I've been out of the loop too long!
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It has everything to do with Miranda pinch.gif
insanekiwi
QUOTE(Dazzla @ Mar 31 2005, 20:30)
I've never even heard of IE-View confused.gif something to do with Miranda? I've been out of the loop too long!
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kustom and russellc are godlike miranda haxors. check out their stuff. they have guides, skins, setups and whatsoever tongue.gif
karma_police
who is kustom?
Dom
QUOTE(insanekiwi @ Mar 31 2005, 16:00)
awesome. i saw it in the aprils dtp thread. kustom was using it tongue.gif
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Its KARMA, and he was using his version, not razors tongue.gif
bangbang023
friday release? sweeeeeeeet
iron2000
These IE-view plugin really started a Miranda revolution here!

This CandyBar is a nice one too!!
So tempting..
bangbang023
QUOTE(iron2000 @ Apr 1 2005, 00:02)
These IE-view plugin really started a Miranda revolution here!
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it's funny what happens when you bring eye candy to an app that touted itself as being the simplistic, no frills IM app lol.
karl.tacheron
Lookin' pretty cool.

I used to love the minimalistic message windows with miranda, but I love this formatting even more. It doesn't even really strike me as eye candy, just displaying information in a much more streamlined way.
iron2000
QUOTE(bangbang023 @ Apr 1 2005, 13:14)
it's funny what happens when you bring eye candy to an app that touted itself as being the simplistic, no frills IM app lol.
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But by doing so it sells Miranda out to a larger group.
It reminds me of a Japanese IM I've tried before, both depend on plugins and are pretty difficult to setup for a novice computer user.
Raditz
wooooooooohooooooo! nice thumbs_up.gif
insanekiwi
ok it's friday 8am. i'm ready for the release tongue.gif
oh and sorry karma. i screwed up the names rofl.gif
bangbang023
QUOTE(iron2000 @ Apr 1 2005, 00:41)
But by doing so it sells Miranda out to a larger group.
It reminds me of a Japanese IM I've tried before, both depend on plugins and are pretty difficult to setup for a novice computer user.
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well thats why the plugin isn't included in the download. It's not selling out. This is a 3rd party plugin.
MarcoAntonio
it's friday over here smile.gif
pcw
friday here as well smile.gif
Razor
Released smile.gif See first post for download link. Any comments appreciated.
-scorpio-
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 1 2005, 11:59)
Released smile.gif See first post for download link. Any comments appreciated.
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now i can download the official port smile.gif
Razor
Oh, could a passing mod please change the title from [preview] to [rel]?
insanekiwi
awesome!! tongue.gif

i like the graphite-vs-teal. is there any way i can change the colors? cuz i like the darker graphite. yet the opponent person uses it. i only have the slight gray sad.gif
eNeon
Thanks, I liek it.
spex04
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 1 2005, 10:59)
Released smile.gif See first post for download link. Any comments appreciated.
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Excellent, definately using this thumbs_up.gif
Razor
QUOTE(insanekiwi @ Apr 1 2005, 11:07)
awesome!! tongue.gif

i like the graphite-vs-teal. is there any way i can change the colors? cuz i like the darker graphite. yet the opponent person uses it. i only have the slight gray sad.gif
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Just edit the relevent CSS file. Search for "head_graphite" and "head_teal" and swap them round smile.gif
YBG
I'm using it right now, looks real good.
insanekiwi
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 1 2005, 14:37)
Just edit the relevent CSS file. Search for "head_graphite" and "head_teal" and swap them round smile.gif
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that's neat. thanks alot mate thumbs_up.gif
Hankyone
i think ill give a try to miranda just for this, looks nice
nazgul
Awesome man, looks sweet, just a few minor issues:
1. Name/Time header doesn't work when the chat window is at it's minimum width, the time gets bumped down to the next line. I was able to fix it for myself, but I know my fix wouldn't work for everyone (I changed the width of the name from 60% to 180 px, and the width of the Timestamp from 39% to 65px).

2. Status change messages also don't fit the minimum width. Same thing here, last part gets bumped down to the last line. This one I'm not really quite sure how to fix (is there anyway to remove the previous status, as in "Signed off (was Online)"? It'd fit then.

3. This one isn't really a huge deal, was just wondering why it's not there: the timestamps on grouped messages, as seen here user posted image
I'd assume the CSS for it was just too much of a pain, but I'd be curious to see if I could get it to work.

Anyway, overall awesome work, it's the template that finally convinced me to use IEView biggrin.gif
undu
I was waiting for the candybars release and I'm not dissapointed biggrin.gif
Razor
Thanks nazgul. Regarding No. 1, I used % as I dont know how long each persons contact names are, restricting the sizes to px means if someone has a long contact name, then the template will mess up. I will try to fix this, there will definately a way round it. The same goes for No. 2 really, and for the previous status, as far as Im aware that is just IE-View.

And lastly the time stamp on grouped messages, to be perfectly honest, I dont use it, so totally forgot about putting it in. If I the majority of people would like to see it implimented then I will give it a shot.
spex04
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 1 2005, 14:38)
Thanks nazgul. Regarding No. 1, I used % as I dont know how long each persons contact names are, restricting the sizes to px means if someone has a long contact name, then the template will mess up. I will try to fix this, there will definately a way round it. The same goes for No. 2 really, and for the previous status, as far as Im aware that is just IE-View.

And lastly the time stamp on grouped messages, to be perfectly honest, I dont use it, so totally forgot about putting it in. If I the majority of people would like to see it implimented then I will give it a shot.
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Yea, I'd like the time on grouped messages thumbs_up.gif
nazgul
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 1 2005, 09:38)
Regarding No. 1, I used % as I dont know how long each persons contact names are, restricting the sizes to px means if someone has a long contact name, then the template will mess up. I will try to fix this, there will definately a way round it.
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I don't have time to mess with it personally right now, but what I'd try first is putting the name and timestamp into seperate divs with the name one floating left, and the time floating right.
Razor
QUOTE(nazgul @ Apr 1 2005, 15:10)
I don't have time to mess with it personally right now, but what I'd try first is putting the name and timestamp into seperate divs with the name one floating left, and the time floating right.
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One step ahead of you wink.gif I tried that when I first set out, but due to IE limitations, it didnt work out how I planned.
karma_police
Razor you did it the using the hard way but looks pretty good too, I really like some combinations biggrin.gif

And I think that the time stamp is needed too, and it's pretty easy to add just add just use the same code as the original (put the time before the text and add a float to the right) and it will work perfectly eventhough IE CSS upport is crappy laugh.gif
Razor
QUOTE(karma_police @ Apr 1 2005, 15:24)
Razor you did it the using the hard way but looks pretty good too, I really like some combinations biggrin.gif

And I think that the time stamp is needed too, and it's pretty easy to add just add just use the same code as the original (put the time before the text and add a float to the right) and it will work perfectly eventhough IE CSS upport is crappy laugh.gif
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Thanks Karma. Ive implimented the timestamp, but as MSN is down I have no means of testing it at the mo tongue.gif
sn00pie
LOVELY!!!!!!!!
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