101 Reply by ShawnBrown

(26 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Connorhd wrote:

wow sounds cool and futuristic like wink , btw you realise punbb is already moving that way and the next version is xhtml 1.1?

Yes, I saw that in the Announcements.

Actually hearing that Pun will output XHTML got me thinking about 1.1, Basic, why the W3C implemented 1.1 in the first place, and about 1.1's advantages over 1.0 (for content providers and developers). This got me thinking that the structure of PunBB's code might benefit, in the long run, by taking a similar approach.

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102 Reply by ShawnBrown

(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rod,

I'm doing something similar. But instead of looking for rel="external", I take the anchor tag's href and compare it against the domain of the current page(parsing as appropriate). Then the JavaScript adds "target=" attributes to all off-site links.

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103 Topic by ShawnBrown

(26 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I'm really attracted to PunBB's minimalist approach--and it's accessible code.

In the distant future (sayPunBB v2.0), I think it'd be nice to see Pun follow XHTML 1.1's example.

E.g., In the start-up options: the default settings would call 4-5 modules that would make-up a very basic stripped-down install of PunBB (sort-of a PunBB equivalent of XHTML Basic). Maybe the output could even be XHTML Basic. Anyway...

With this "PunBB Basic" installed, people could add to the base modules for additional features or they could run the stripped-down version. The profile and admin scripts could look for the installed modules on-the-fly and offer options as appropriate.

Also, the display scripts (profile, index, viewforum, viewtopic, etc.) could use lots of "id=" attributes... so you could set "display: none;" on particular options in the CSS file and customize almost everything on the page.

This seems to me, a nice way to let PunBB grow, build its user-base, and keep the purists/minimalists happy.

BTW- I'm very pleased with PunBB Rickard, thanks!

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104 Reply by ShawnBrown

(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Hello everyone (new poster),

Right now, the "Open links in new window" setting adds target="_blank" attributes in the code  but that won't validate as Strict.

I'm curious: if v1.2 is going to be XHTML Strict, how will "Open links in new window" be implemented?

(I have a JavaScript add-on at my site for this and so I'm interested in how others are doing it.)

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