Noir BBS - Surf in pure black and white like when you click "log out"

[Borgs8472]

I love the underused feature of vb3 that makes the screen go black and white when you click "log out".

It's not a CSS type hack, as it even effects avatars and the logo...

How does it work?

And would it be possible to make it a skin selection or option? Surfing in black and white would be very retro IMO.

[nexialys]

this is simply a style/skin in no-color way, so guests have that black stuff, and members/logged-in have a colored skin...

[AN-net]

i also wonder how they achieve this must be some kind of dyanmic scripting:)

[Brad]

i also wonder how they achieve this must be some kind of dyanmic scripting:)
IIRC the 'trick' only works in IE.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function log_out()
{
ht = document.getElementsByTagName("html");
ht[0].style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(grays cale=1)";
if (confirm('$vbphrase[sure_you_want_to_log_out]'))
{
return true;
}
else
{
ht[0].style.filter = "";
return false;
}
}
//-->
</script>

[Zachery]

IIRC the 'trick' only works in IE.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function log_out()
{
ht = document.getElementsByTagName("html");
ht[0].style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(grays cale=1)";
if (confirm('$vbphrase[sure_you_want_to_log_out]'))
{
return true;
}
else
{
ht[0].style.filter = "";
return false;
}
}
//-->
</script>
It uses a fade filter and the opactity filter and clear.gif to make the screen go grey. Its an IE only feature.

[Borgs8472]

No cross-browser equivilents?

[nexialys]

usually, IE is not cross-browser itself, so when a tool is created with the IE functions, it's not working on either the browsers available on the market... this is what we can call an invert-compatible system.

[Borgs8472]

Like that damn glowing text! Arghh!

[MindTrix]

It uses a fade filter and the opactity filter and clear.gif to make the screen go grey. Its an IE only feature.
Pretty much what brad loo was saying then :rolleyes:

[Zachery]

Brad just said it was an IE trick, i explained which IE tricks :p .