Aye, I don't intend to use the bloated stuff like gridviews, profiles, themes, etc..
2 2007-03-29 23:07
Re: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
I considered that and initially I copied the style. The big advantage would be that people could just use punbb styles from punres.org.
However, I don't know if I want to be mirroring the html tags, and css classes. Because I fear I would spend too much time chasing down changes and debugging inconsistency from different styles people had downloaded. So I think a CSS converter would be less effort.
Also, I think punbb overuses DIV tags a little too much. For example, on the topic view page, each message is a set of divs. I'm not a CSS expert, so I had a heck of a time figuring out the little trick where you set the background on the outer div to match the left side in case it is longer, and then you set a colored margin on the right side to match the color of the left side in case the left is longer. To me that is just crazy. I know people hate tables but when you get into that kind of hackery just to simulate a table, you're not doing anyone a favor. At least that is my opinion.
3 2007-03-29 22:39
Re: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
Well, since nobody seems to object, I started down the path to making this a reality. I don't have much yet except for a schema, a rough framework, some css, and a few screens with with lots of broken functionality.
I expect it will take me about 3 months before I have a version that people can actually use. Then us asp.net users will be able to enjoy some punbb like lubbings too.
I'll be updating my progress here:
http://www.brazenbits.net/forum/index.aspx
I've imported a snitz forum I run so that I would have some data to develop/test with. Feel free to mess around (without being obnoxious).
4 2007-03-06 19:28
Re: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
You probably mean http://dnfbb.sourceforge.net/
There are a few things I don't like about it however: .net 1.1 instead of 2.0, tied to firebird sql rather than native access and mssql, tons of <table> tags and non css design.
5 2007-03-06 18:20
Re: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
No reply yet... did I post in the wrong forum or do I assume the devs are just indifferent?
6 2007-03-06 18:18
Re: Usernames as Mods (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Why not just remove it from the index page altogether. I never really understood why you need to see a list of moderators, when you're at the forum "choosing" page. Even "Moderated by: moderators" is clutter.
The natural place for it seems to be, in the forum topic list page. At that point you may see some posts that aren't appropriate and a list of moderators would actually be useful.
7 2007-02-26 16:07
Re: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
Gamelab: I don't know the history of those two, so I can't say. I will say I'm not looking to do a code port. What I want is the look and feature set in an asp.net forum - and to have some fun in working on it.
MadHatter: That's cool, but it would still leave me with a php codebase, which I know nothing about and can't modify.
8 2007-02-26 04:51
Re: Scroll to top of post (6 replies, posted in General discussion)
BTW, it doesn't have to be an A tag. It should work with any other tag. e.g.
<h1 id="name">Forum Name</h1>
9 2007-02-26 01:21
Topic: asp.net version (14 replies, posted in General discussion)
Hey,
I really like the look and and unbloated feature set of this board... but I'm not a php guy. It reminds me of an ISAPI forum I wrote for windows many years ago but stopped updating. Pun is much nicer however. Anyway, would the devs, specifically Rickard, object if I starting an open source ASP.net copy of punbb? I don't know how far I would actually go with it, but I think it would be fun to do as a hobby project - I had fun with my original forum and could use some more practice with my asp.net coding.