The "Currently Active Users" area has style information ("classes" in CSS speak) added to it to allow users to customize the appearance, with client style overrides (often provided by extensions, such as
Stylish for FireFox).
Specifically the classes are:
- asname -- applied to all names
- asbuddy -- applied to the name of anyone on your contacts list
- asinvisible -- applied to invisible users, not that you'll ever see one unless you're a member of staff or you're looking at your own name and you happen to use that mode yourself.
Most of the styles (see "Style Chooser" combo box in the bottom right of the page) don't do anything with these attributes, with the exception of the "Contacts Highlighted".
You could use something like
Stylish to give staff names different colours, if you
really wanted, but we're unlikely to do it for you
. We
could have done similar with staff names, but to be honest we already have enough identifying marks (badges below names, and the formatting GHDpro mentioned) and historically we've preferred to play down the separation between staff and regular users.