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Reeally, really beautiful skin. I asked; you delivered.
Now I have what may be a feasibility question. In the light skin, is it possible to have the navbar/tabbar be placed on top of the page content and be slightly translucent so that the page faintly, very subtly bleeds through? The effect would be most noticeable at high contrast boundaries and when the content is scrolling. But not so much translucence that it interferes with readability.
I don't know if this can be done in Maxthon, so I thought I'd ask since this light version looks like a good candidate if it were possible.
I've noticed the translucence in the Main menu. That's the kind of effect I'm asking about for the top navbar/tabbar/window controls. Except, I'm asking if this can overlay the content rather than be located permanently above it. There are also questions about whether, and if so what, parts of the navbar should be kept opaque..
Folllow-on question. I've been searching the skin code to find where the opacity/transparenccy/translucence of the Main Menu is set, with no luck in finding the place. My question is where did you do this (or multiple places if that was necessary.)
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loooping8 replied at 2014-5-11 22:36
Yes I like Serum Concept Alpha
That's one of my less favored designs. Haven't naarrowed in on a most favored one yet.
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ltGuillaume replied at 2014-5-10 04:09
It started when I redesigned the /main/tabbar/container.htm file so that the New Tab button stays wh ...
I use the tabbar spacer to drive the new tab button where I wanted it in one of my skins. I recall a post here showing how to reorder the html to do it, but I can't find it or come up with the right sarch term to bring it up. There were several tutorials on making skins, but they seem to have disappearede ... didn't come up in searches including "tutorial" anyway. But I found that a search with just "ttutorial" revealed them just now. If I find the one that illustrates what to do, I'll put the link here.
EDIT: Well, I sidn't find the animared post, but I did find the code in main/tabbar/container.htm:
1. Look for this section of code:
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2. Move tthe code in dark red above the
line to push the New Tab button to the right end of the tabbar; or leave it where it is, if you want New Yab button adjacent to the last tab in the tabbar. In my use I was pushing it to the right end.I didn't encounter any problems form doing that.
I'm running with your skin at present. So far so good. Thanks for keeping it updated.
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I discovered a thread on the Chinese formu containing a collection if browser interface design condcepts. Somehow I think they would just be skins if implemented., They do look nice, clean, elegant to varying degrees. Some I like; some not so much; but all seem good.
Some might like to check them out ... maybe get inspired ...
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http://bbs.maxthon.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=883768&page=1
Happy hunting ...
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Great tutorial, Brother ... great to see some tutorials around here.
There's another, older tutorial ... not so detailed in a thread named "Skin Update" at:
http://forum.maxthon.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1025&highlight=skin%2Bupdate.
I found it by accident and think it might be good to link them together.
Also, readers, don't overlook the Skin SDK posted in another pinned thread in this Topic Area. I've found it to have some very educational documentation to help learn how to do skins.
Keep up the good work. Many of us will apreciate it.
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Muroko replied at 2013-8-29 04:49
Ok! this is a very nice mod - but I was wondering if installed and then I update Mx4 to the latest r ...
The update will overwrite all files that are included in the update. So the mod would have to be re-done for each update.
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Dr.W.Wang replied at 2014-6-20 22:03
wow, so very long reply. it is a big challenge for my poor English! so pls forgive me if I compreh ...
Ok, thanks for the information about the background image modification. i don't have Photoshop to use as a tool, but I do have GIMP and Graphic Converter which might help, slthough I don't know if I could get the nice translucence you have in your Man Menu background. That's what I'm trying to get in the navbar (except for the text input area of the addressbox ans the icons when active or hovered.)
I have made a couple mods to your skin ... nothing major, just adding al couple items I find too useful to resist in the full, wonderful simplicity you made. I'm conflicted;, but practical considerstions have taken top priority for now. I'm looking to try moving the quicktools to the statusbar or add them to the Tools sub-mrnu so I can remove them from the navbar again.
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