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Wow Rickard, this is very cool. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to it.

We have formed a fragile compromise. If we're lucky, it will hold, if not, God help us.

Well, I definitely didn't think of those reasons (esp. pruning old posts).

Perhaps a "update post count" check box (available only to moderators+) then upon deleting a post? Or is that adding unneeded complexity?

But if they make a post, and I delete it, for all intensive purposes they haven't made it.

I don't see why deleting a post shouldn't update the poust count. I think everyone probably expects the post count to reflect how many posts the user actually has on the forums. Find me someone who wants the current behavior.

Would be easy to, just update the post count of the user when deleting the post.

I agree. This constant attention is definitely a good thing, even though it shows how lazy I am. My Punbb is a franken 1.5 beast with various security patches applied by hand. I am still procrastinating a proper update until 1.3, as I know I'll have to rewrite a bunch of my forum anyway.

Lazyness! Glad Rickard doesn't suffer as badly as I do!

Thanks Rickard.

Hey Paul, on this subject, check this out:

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/more-links/

Essentially using a span and some CSS you could have a link that said "Email User X" but hide everything but "Email". Looks the same to visual users, screenreaders get the full useful link.

Wouldnt that help satisfy 13.1?

Yuck, that one is a pain in the ass. Just look at this page, there are multiple "E-mail", "Website", and "Quote" links that lead to different places.

Yet how are you supposed to fix that? Sure, the "E-mail" link could easily be changed to "E-mail User X", but what about "Quote"? "Quote post 50571"?

Honestly, personally with that guideline I do my best to reach it (in fact, I think on my site that has the forum the forum is the only part that doesn't), but don't sweat it if there are a few things that don't.

OFFTOPIC: If you've noticed that you can scroll the Google ads on these forums by a few pixels in Firefox, I have a pretty good fix for it. It would be especially easy on this forum because of the white background (simply use CSS to give the iframe the full height it really is, 65px), although I wouldn't complain if you checked out the rest of my fix, as your a CSS God and the fix isn't working 100% in Opera yet.

Well said. I work with CSS all the time in my job, and Paul is right on the mark here.

Like many other CSS designers, I've long ago ditched tables (although I understand the difficulty this can cause), for many reasons, including handhelds. I only use tables now for tabular data, something that I've only had on one site I've designed so far.

I would be happy to see PunBB *eventually* become tableless, although its not a huge priority, especially since I'll have to redo my styles. Of course, I'll probably have to do that for 1.3 anyway.

OK, I'm going to sound like an idiot here, but it says

"If your files are located outside the PunBB directory tree, I recommend that you create symbolic links in the include/user/ directory."

How would I go about doing that?

Amen. PunBB's code it so clean in never ceases to amaze me...makes doing little customizations take minutes not hours.

So wrap it all in a #punwrap2 and set it to width = 100%?

EDIT:
Just tried that, and while it did make the div I am containing punbb in clear as tall as punbb is, punbb itself was still invisible. Perhaps I didnt understand properly what you said.

EDIT 2:
Actually, just applying width = 100% to punwrap worked just fine, and didnt mess it up in other browsers either (havent tested mac). Seems like we have a pretty bullet proof solution here.