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.

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]

Originally Posted by AN-net

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(grayscale=1)";
	if (confirm('$vbphrase[sure_you_want_to_log_out]'))
	{
		return true;
	}
	else
	{
		ht[0].style.filter = "";
		return false;
	}
}
//-->
</script>

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

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(grayscale=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?

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]

Originally Posted by Zachery

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

[Zachery]

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