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I'm going to make a JavaScript add-on that manages this for PunBB 1.2. It will be a something that people can add to PunBB's main template if they like. I should be able to start on it after Dec. 20th. Other people have discussed similar ideas under the New message indicators topic.

I'd really need to see the full markup of the pages before I could make a working version of the script.

If an instance of this updated beta were public, just briefly, I could save static copies of the needed pages and work with them instead of a live forum. If someone is up for this, feel free to IM me--if not, I can wait.

I'd be interesting in working on this--it might be a week or so before I get to it (I'm pretty busy right now).

I've been looking at the 1.2 beta that Connor has up (http://66.98.138.31/~connorhd/pun1.2beta/index.php). PunBB doesn't have to add any extra id attributes because JavaScript can extract them from the href of the post links (<a href="post.php?tid=4">) on the viewtopic pages.

Yes, in this case PunBB would have to add an id attribute to the inew div tags. Then, the JavaScript would take a list of these tags and apply something like the following in a loop...
inewArray[i].className = 'inormal';

This would immediately switch the appearance in the browser--no extra tricks or additional page loads. The only change to PunBB's php files would be the addition of id attributes for each inew-div. The javascript call could be added to main.tpl.

I thought it might be something like that.

I've gone from pro-mac/apple back in the '80s to anti-mac in the '90s and now I'm neutral.

I was, unfortunately, working tech-support for my university in the '90s when macs were just awful (at least if you were providing tech-support for IBM-compatibles and more than one type of mac).

Keep in mind this is from a tech-support perspective: If Apple had gone out of business back then I think they would've deserved it. Most machines had a different version of the OS and each of these OSs had a different collection of patches of varying quality and reliability--and we had no auto-upgrade via the network back then. Macs either ate up a disproportionate amount of the service department's time or they were dumped to the back of a long list and fixed when things were slow. And most of us working there couldn't help but feel annoyed when a mac-cultist client would preach to us about how their mac was inherently better than an IBM-compatible as we fixed their glitchy, buggy computer (this was the exception, of course, but it only took a handful of times to become memorable).

The most hated things to support were (in order): Packard Bells, newer network printers on Windows3.1x machines, Macs, IBM PS2's, and one particular model of Compaq.

I left university--and the tech-support job--just after Apple almost went bankrupt, got financial assistance from Microsoft instead, and then cleaned their act up by releasing OS X and the newer machines.

I'd have to agree with the Notepad2 and Notepad++ comments. They're both very similar (lots of language support, lean program size, syntax highlighting, free) and both seem do a good job.

Notepad++ offers collapsing display and multi-document interface (with tabs to jump between documents), and more options than Notepad2.

Notepad2 doesn't have as many features but I think it has slightly cleaner/simpler look. I also prefer the default PHP syntax color scheme of Notepad2 but you can, of course, change these in both programs.

I remember from an earlier discussion that Pun v1.2 was going to use javascript to implement new window links instead of target="_blank".

Most of the new-window javascripts I've seen, give a corrupt URL if you try to explicitly open them in new windows (e.g. with a context menu:open-in-new-window). And they don't give you a choice.

The discussion was a while ago though... maybe this issue was taken care of differently? Is there an admin option to turn new window links on?

(I'm interested in this because I'm finishing a new version of the javascript I use to automatically set external links to open in new windows.)

Sorry about that. I was speaking theoretically about using a wrapper. (My host charges me extra for additional MySQL databases so I haven't installed 1.2b or looked at the output.)

Ah, I was only concerned if the wrapping div was to be generated from within the PHP code instead of from the template. Having it in the template negates all my concern.

Quite right... forgot about that.

I just realized that doing this might not be a good idea. Truncating the topic display could get annoying if it cuts out the most meaningful parts of the subject. People wise to this would be careful when they were typing the subject to begin with. And if you had forgotten, but wanted to know exactly what the post title was, you'd have to back out of the forum to read the full topic title.

I guess it would be better to put a limit on how long the post titles can be in the first place. The best way to get this effect would be to make an Admin:Option to set the maxlength attribute of the subject input.

Right now it's hard coded to maxlength="70".

Maybe it could default to a max of 70 and have a minimum of about 10.

Hey, I like that last one: "Warrior Emirs of Iraq/????? ??? ??????" Thanks!

Oh, please don't worry. The original game is simply an old board-game from 1985. It's like a game of Risk with political rules added on top.

Here's a summary of it from http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1143
"Warrior Knights is at its essence a tactical wargame .... players use armies to conquer cities .... Cities provide income .... the Assembly where players vote on .... titles and appointments .... and other offices which give the holder additional troops, or for concessions which create additional income .... As in any game of this nature, alliances are forged and broken between players in order to further goals until one player emerges victorious."

Here are some pics of the original game by Games Workshop
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/34434
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/19342

The Iraqi version is just a portfolio piece for my online gallery. My sister helped me with the Arabic on it (she's a Mid-Eastern Studies student). But she didn't know what to name it.

Thanks Again!