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Topic: Suggestions

Hi All,
I've some ideas and suggestions for next version

Content Managmet:

    * Complete AJAX CMS:
      Ajax Menu: the whole site-map in 1 XML menu file.
      DB2XML tool.
    * Printing: client side (see http://www.richstyle.org: hiding the header, menu, sidebar -if any-, and footer blocks)
    * A javascript calender support: something like http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/.
    * user/visitors statistics: in the statusbar, and/or in additional artificial buttonface-color statusbar.

MultLingual:

    * Encoding: utf-8, with unicode font (tahoma).
    * Text Boxes <Input>: LTR attribute for filname, username & passward fields.

Format:

    Some of the falloewing ideas are here: http://www.upload-images.net/imagen/502a468edc.png
    * Header+Footer: width:100% across the whole page width.
    * Footer: text-align: center.
    * Title box: white lines up and down.
    * Menu blocks: links should be blocks, not simple underlined texts
    * Font size: 10px
    * Buttons: Flat borders, themes color.
    * Colorizing Scroll bar (for IE5.5+ users) - I wish if it was w3c standard hmm
    * OS Colors in The Control Panel/Administration pages (Buttonface..etc) and bigger padding.

Thanx..

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Re: Suggestions

Wow, that's quite a wishlist wink

* Complete AJAX CMS:
      Ajax Menu: the whole site-map in 1 XML menu file.
      DB2XML tool.

A CMS might be overkill, don't you think? wink

* Printing: client side (see http://www.richstyle.org: hiding the header, menu, sidebar -if any-, and footer blocks)

That's something that can be accomplished via CSS if you want it

* A javascript calender support: something like http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/.

Again, overkill? Would be an interesting extension.

* user/visitors statistics: in the statusbar, and/or in additional artificial buttonface-color statusbar.

What kind of statistics? An extension could do this nicely and let you customize exactly what data you want to see

* Encoding: utf-8, with unicode font (tahoma).

UTF-8 support is already planned and Verdana, the font we're using, does support Unicode characters.

* Text Boxes <Input>: LTR attribute for filname, username & passward fields.

Why?

Format:

    Some of the falloewing ideas are here: http://www.upload-images.net/imagen/502a468edc.png
    * Header+Footer: width:100% across the whole page width.
    * Footer: text-align: center.
    * Title box: white lines up and down.
    * Menu blocks: links should be blocks, not simple underlined texts
    * Font size: 10px
    * Buttons: Flat borders, themes color.
    * Colorizing Scroll bar (for IE5.5+ users) - I wish if it was w3c standard hmm
    * OS Colors in The Control Panel/Administration pages (Buttonface..etc) and bigger padding.

Those are all stylistic things you can tweak via CSS if you want them that way wink
And 1.3 has entirely new markup/CSS in any case

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What kind of statistics? An extension could do this nicely and let you customize exactly what data you want to see

Something like: Visitors: (# online/ # total) - Members: (# online / # total) - Alexa Rank: #

UTF-8 support is already planned and Verdana, the font we're using, does support Unicode characters.

* Text Boxes <Input>: LTR attribute for filname, username & passward fields.

Why?

UTF-8 and Tahoma are better for non-Latin characters. LTR attribute is necessary to prevent inheriting RTL attribute in RTL pages, since filname, username & password are usually LTR texts.

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Re: Suggestions

Anas wrote:

What kind of statistics? An extension could do this nicely and let you customize exactly what data you want to see

Something like: Visitors: (# online/ # total) - Members: (# online / # total) - Alexa Rank: #

You can already see guests online on the front page (and I don't see where you can come up with a "total" for that).
Same with number of users online (although there you can get a total).
Alexa rank is completely useless tongue
So yes, that would be better off as an extension

Anas wrote:

UTF-8 and Tahoma are better for non-Latin characters.

Example?

Anas wrote:

LTR attribute is necessary to prevent inheriting RTL attribute in RTL pages, since filname, username & password are usually LTR texts.

I think that's something that can be left up to each forum administrator. wink

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Also imagine some kind of compatibility between punbb and mailman (GNU mailing list) - the idea is: providing two ways to send and receive posts/messages: web browser, and mail client.

And one more thing: since smiles are allowed unlike the main punbb principles, I think it might be a idea good to replace "online/offline" texts in member-profile pane with a blink-maroon-gif for "online" and a gray-png for "offline".

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Also imagine some kind of compatibility between punbb and mailman (GNU mailing list) - the idea is: providing two ways to send and receive posts/messages: web browser, and mail client.

Sounds like a wonderful extension, but certainly not a feature for the core

Anas wrote:

And one more thing: since smiles are allowed unlike the main punbb principles, I think it might be a idea good to replace "online/offline" texts in member-profile pane with a blink-maroon-gif for "online" and a gray-png for "offline".

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "unlike the main punbb principles"
However, the online/offline texts can be determined via CSS I believe: if you want to have a style that replaces them, you're certainly free to smile

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Re: Suggestions

Can't you also replace the online/offline text in the langfile with an <img tag, as another method?

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Yup, that works as well (I just tested out the CSS idea and it works)

9 Reply by Anas (edited by Anas 2008-01-27 22:40)

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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "unlike the main punbb principles"

I mean

I looked around quite a lot, but all the boards I found were either "over-featured" or too graphic for the purpose they would be filling.

(no images as much as possible)

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Re: Suggestions

Possibly, but taking away a mans smilies would just be mean. big_smile Besides, you do have the option of enabling/disabling smilies, if you wish. smile

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That's not what it says and that's not what it means wink
Now, there is nothing wrong with images. Overuse of images is the problem. You don't need to replace every bit of text on the forum with a shiny image, in other words. tongue
And we're not trying to control what people can and can't do. If people want a flashy, graphical style, they can make one. smile

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Re: Suggestions

Nobody ever said PunBB couldn't have smilies. Or images for that.