Drupal uses inconsistent indication on "new" items. In comments, we display red "new" on the right, on tracker and on project issues we use "*".
Also note that "*" is widely used on marking required comment fields.

My suggestion is remove both instances of "new" and "*" and replace them with genereric "new" label, styled with CSS.

my take on the label:
http://kika.trip.ee/files/new.html

it's a hack allright (no-no to inline styles!), but you'll get the idea.

Mockup displaying the new labels is included. The problem I see is that the display gets too "reddish". An alternative is to use less intrusive black-on-yellow marking:

http://kika.trip.ee/files/updated.html

More on "styling buttons with CSS"

http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/06/25/creating-css-buttons/
http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/w3c_buttons.html

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kika’s picture

kika commented
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ha! It seems www.flickr.com uses the very same approach. See attached screenshot.
Relevant CSS:

.New {
	font: 8px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #000000;
	background: #FFE28A;
	padding: 1px;
}

and HTML

<span class="New">NEW</span>&nbsp;Title text...

I also like how the put NEW badge to the left
jcosters’s picture

jcosters commented

Great, but isn't it better to use em's instead of px's for font sizes in CSS?

If I'm not mistaken:

  • em's will always keep the same proportions across systems.
  • px's will not always do this because of the different pixels per inch relationship on different systems.
coreb’s picture

coreb commented
Version: x.y.z » 6.x-dev

Moving from x.y.z queue to 6.x-dev.

zeta ζ’s picture

zeta ζ commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I think this has been addressed with <span class="marker">new</span> for project issues.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.