On Jan 24, 2008 7:42 AM, Huji huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:
Please take a few seconds to have a look at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12681 and help with your comments about whether we should apply this change or not. Applying it will prevent people from spoofing the "new message" alert, but at the same time, will make the new message bar to appear where it never appeared before, which may not be desired.
Repeating (and expanding on) my comment from there: this is pointless, IMO. The usertalk thing can still easily be spoofed with absolute positioning, unless bug 9526 (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9526) is fixed. Adding the current user's name to the message is a much more sensible tactic; it would be impossible to spoof unless someone adds a JS-based {{username}} hack or something.
Of course, this doesn't affect me at enwiki. I decided more than a year ago (in the midst of some fight or other, I guess, I don't remember) that the default orange color was too traumatizing, so I added some user CSS:
.usermessage { background: lightgreen no-repeat 4px center url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Smiley_head_happy.p...); border-color: green; padding: 0.5em 13px 0.5em 33px; }