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Titles in blue

IvanzxIvanzx
edited October 2012 in Infoseek database
I just noticed yesterdaz that, when browsing titles using list as a displaying way, some titles appear in blue; investigating a little it seems that these are titles which appeared as compilations or covertapes, is that right? :)
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited October 2012
    All the titles show in blue when I select an Infoseek list, as I think that WoS sets the "unvisited link" colour to blue, so I can't distinguish them. At least, if I change my un/visited browser settings to green/magenta my own site displays them as such but WoS displays them in blue/red. Some compilations have "See individual tapes" in blue at the right-hand side, but not all of them; "Denied" is in red; otherwise non-title text is black.

    On a slightly related note, this brought to mind that the odd one of my files lists as blue in Windows File Explorer. I'd noticed this occasionally but not bothered to look into it, as they worked just the same. Anyway, this prompted me to look at them again and I discovered that if the "compress" option has been set in Advanced Properties then they display as blue in File Explorer - though how that option came to be set I've no idea.
  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2012
    Like red is used for denied titles, blue is used for MIA titles.
    However, from your description some items are listed in blue incorrectly.
    Could you please provide an example query so I can see what needs fixing?
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited October 2012
    mheide wrote: »
    Like red is used for denied titles, blue is used for MIA titles.
    However, from your description some items are listed in blue incorrectly.
    Could you please provide an example query so I can see what needs fixing?

    OK, two things:

    First, I saw this in my job?s computer, in firefox, and now it seems that I cant make it happen again (I did a simple search by a company I now cant remember).

    Second thing, which was the strangest of all, was that the title itself of the game appeared in blue, not the field Status, where the denied or MIA are displayed in different colors as you said.

    I hope that helps!
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  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2012
    I'm afraid it doesn't help at all. :-(

    When a title is listed MIA, all fields (i.e. the entire line) are in blue, so what you describe is exactly how it should be...
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited October 2012
    mheide wrote: »
    I'm afraid it doesn't help at all. :-(

    When a title is listed MIA, all fields (i.e. the entire line) are in blue, so what you describe is exactly how it should be...

    By doing this search, for example:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^ABC+Soft$&loadpics=3

    none of the entries appear in blue or red, and actually for me, it never appeared like that since I have been using WoS, maybe its my web explorer :S
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  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2012
    Telling where it does NOT happen is reverse psychology and should be illegal. :p

    Looking at lots of code now that my memory is apparently going, I see that
    - 'all of the fields being blue' only applies for the regular point&click lists; e.g. this one where the title '1990' appears in all-blue.
    - for all search engine results, blue is set for the colour of the availability field if it is MIA, but when only a link is shown (to the MIA project), the displayed colour is overridden by the link colour by your browser (dark blue for unvisited ones, purple for visited links), as Battle Bunny mentioned.
  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2012
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    Some compilations have "See individual tapes" in blue at the right-hand side, but not all of them

    None of them should have that, as those are not really MIA, so I fixed that.
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited October 2012
    mheide wrote: »
    Telling where it does NOT happen is reverse psychology and should be illegal. :p

    Looking at lots of code now that my memory is apparently going, I see that
    - 'all of the fields being blue' only applies for the regular point&click lists; e.g. this one where the title '1990' appears in all-blue.
    - for all search engine results, blue is set for the colour of the availability field if it is MIA, but when only a link is shown (to the MIA project), the displayed colour is overridden by the link colour by your browser (dark blue for unvisited ones, purple for visited links), as Battle Bunny mentioned.

    Oh yeah, I for some reason missed BB post, but thats going to be it :)
    In Firefox probably I had at work a different configuration, so it was different than in IE, hence the confussion.
    Thanks all and sorry for the silly after all question :)
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