Tropers / Broken Chaos

I know enough about nearly any geeky/nerdy topic you can name to hold a basic conversation – or to be interested when it's discussed, at least – but there are few things I consider myself to excel in. Most of those are computer-related or law-related, though I'm not professionally trained in either.

I float around here and there. I don't always endear myself to other tropers, but please try to assume good faith. If something I say bothers you, feel free to question me (in private where appropriate) about my intentions.

Wiki Magic is welcome to contribute tropes that apply to me. (I've been shuffling through lists and adding ones for fun. They're not exact, but all at least somewhat representative of me.)

This entity is an example of:

• Blind Without 'Em: First thing in the morning, last thing at night.
  • Cool Shades: Required in sunlight.
• Canada, Eh?: Down to the "eh".
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Double Post: Avoids whenever possible.
• Exposed to the Elements: Has 5/- resistance to cold and heat. This allows for a convenient year-round wardrobe.
• Finding A Trope: I know Google-Fu.
• Grammar Nazi: Moderately obsessive about consistency, as well as grammar/spelling.
• Headphones Equal Isolation
• Husky Russkie: About 50% eastern European ancestry.
  • Stout Strength: No, I'm not the Heavy. I have too much hair and not enough bullet.
• Most Tropers Are Young Nerds: Prefers 'geek'.
• Not a Morning Person: Rarely awake on the normal side of morning.
• Playful Hacker: White hat side of the coin, fun with finding and reporting/fixing security flaws.
• Serial Tweaker: Mostly pre-submitting. Also occurs in non-wiki works.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Goes both ways.
  • Honour Before Reason: Watered-down, day-to-day version.
  • Knight in Sour Armour: At times.
• Sock Puppet: Has a super-secret sock-puppet.
• The Smart Guy: Definitely one of the brains of the wiki. ~Cliche
• Think Nothing of It: Stock phrase, though not usually after saving someone's life.
• Thread Necromancer: When appropriate.
• TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: Averted, except for a few late nights.
• Weapon Of Choice: Knives. Used as a tool, but nigh-always has at least one in a pocket.

CSS:

GlimmerBlocker

@-moz-document

Spoiler colour/hi-light
This makes spoilers hi-light much better than default, providing a black background on white text only when hi-lighted. It also provides better colour for links in a spoiler when hi-lighted (so they're visible).

Code for CSS3 standard (Webkit – Safari, Chrome, etc.):

span.spoiler::selection, span.spoiler *::selection, span.supersecret::selection, span.supersecret *::selection { 
  color: #fff; 
  background: #000; 
} 
span.spoiler a.twikilink::selection, span.supersecret a.twikilink::selection { 
  color: #6495ed; 
} 
span.spoiler a.createlink::selection, span.supersecret a.createlink::selection { 
  color: #ed9564; 
}

Code for Mozilla non-standard (Gecko – Firefox, Camino, etc.):

span.spoiler::-moz-selection, span.spoiler *::-moz-selection, span.supersecret::-moz-selection, span.supersecret *::-moz-selection { 
  color: #fff; 
  background: #000; 
} 
span.spoiler a.twikilink::-moz-selection, span.supersecret a.twikilink::-moz-selection { 
  color: #6495ed; 
} 
span.spoiler a.createlink::-moz-selection, span.supersecret a.createlink::-moz-selection { 
  color: #ed9564; 
}

Spoiler redlink hover
Spoilers that contain a redlink will have that text 'light up' on hover (mouseover). This fixes that, so it stays white all the time. Works best with the above selection/colour fixes.

Code:

span.spoiler a.createlink:hover, span.supersecretspoiler a.createlink:hover { 
  color: #fff; 
}

Line height readability
Optimal readability for line heights (amount of space above/below a line of text) is around 1.5:1 (150% of the text size, 25% each above and below). This adjusts that spacing up to approximately optimal.

Code:

body { 
  line-height: 1.5em; 
}

Top border on spoilers
I prefer a four-bordered spoiler appearance (dotted on all sides) to better denote a spoiler.

Code:

span.spoiler { 
  border-top: 1px dotted gray; 
}

Content rewrites:

GlimmerBlocker

Greasemonkey

Remove excess linebreaks
There's a huge number of linebreaks (<br />) on almost every page near the end. These can be safely (from my experience) removed and replaced with a proper clear:both div.

Code (for GlimmerBlocker):

Code (generic regular expression):

Pseudocode:

Fix preview display
The preview (when editing) looks nothing like a normal page. This is due to missing an id tag on one of the divs (and then a few other changes are needed to not break the preview in other ways).

Code (for GlimmerBlocker):

Code (generic regular expression):

Pseudocode:

Security:

Gone: