> Drop-shadows, rounded corners, borders, colouring, fades. All extra work, all a pain to look at. i have it on exceedingly good authority (as the one who impl

> Drop-shadows, rounded corners, borders, colouring, fades. All extra work, all a pain to look at. i have it on exceedingly good authority (as the one who implemented it) that the look and feel was about 90% personal preference and 10% feedback from other project members during development. The "extra work" you mention is relative - with modern browser dev tools such things can (with a bit of CSS know-how) often be completely styled in a matter of minutes, then copy/pasted over into CSS. The much more time-consuming part was getting the messages to pop up from the bottom, but the difference in readability between that and top-down posts made that effort well worth it. There's obviously no accounting for taste, but (A) you're the first person i've seen actually complain about the CSS styles and (B) any given fossil site can restyle be restyled to do its admins' personal tastes - they're not stuck with mine.