ugh, it interpolated the way haxor does the names and so they didn't show up in my post. i'll use another symbol instead of angle brackets, but know that the haxor skin uses angle brackets around the names.

haxor messages look like this:
[1:47]jeff ... thus negating all existence!
[1:47]evan Precisely! it's a risk one takes whenever one walks into a bar, I'm afraid, especially if one is a chicken.


and yes, i understand why you are putting the large gap into your lay-out. i just wasn't 100% sure that aligning the names and aligning the messages was the same thing, hence my confusion.

i am not considering the names part of this or that or the other thing. all i am saying is that including that huge space to accommodate potentially long names means that my messages get crammed all up against one side of the window and makes them very hard to read (for example a one line response can end up on as many as three lines).

i have no idea what an Ecmascript truncation function is, so i can't help you there.

haxor looks like this (from the preferences example text):

[1:47] ... thus negating all existence!
[1:47] Precisely! it's a risk one takes whenever one walks into a bar, I'm afraid, especially if one is a chicken.

l337 looks like this (the same example):

[1:47 Jeff] ... thus negating all existence!
[1:47 Evan] Precisely! it's a risk one takes whenever one walks into a bar, I'm afraid, especially if one is a chicken.


i don't really know what you mean by aligning messages. i'm just saying that i prefer this:
[1:47]
to this:
[1:47 Jeff]
if you want to avoid using the 's maybe do this?
[1:47][Jeff]

for me,
not having the conversation crammed against the right-hand side of the window is more (way) important than having the names lined up.

i didn't expect it to be a priority, it's just a request. so many aspects of these things are customizable within the context of a skin, and that's one bit that isn't, so i have to make the request.

no, i'm not using a proportional font. what would be the point of using a terminal emulating message window with a proportional font?

anyway, the haxor message window that inspired this one doesn't have a huge space gap like that. the datetime stamp and the name are in separate segments like this
[datetime]
whereas yours are like this
[datetime name]

it just might be nice if there was one sub-variant that didn't do that for those of us who like to use smaller messaging windows, because it really does end up cramping up the text pretty considerably.

but i -really- like this style otherwise. its quite sharp.

d'oh! that should say "... and it squishes all the teXt in my windows..."

My only confusion/criticism of this skin, which I really love aesthetically, is that huge space between the time stamp and the user ID. I don't see any way of removing it, I'm not sure why it's there, and it squishes all the test in my windows way over to one edge. What's the deal?

That aside, this is brilliant :)