IPB3 matching admin and forum skin

[white-worms]

I have a question, in the new IPB3 version. Are there plans to create just one default skin, that comes with a matching admin panel (unlike IPB2 now).

But this I mean, will the admin panel use the exact same colour scheme as the forum board. Also will it come with just one default skin, or do you have plans to include more than one colour, like in IPB2 now. Where you have the Blue and Black templates installed by default.

One last question, will IPB3 be WC3 Strict?

[teraßyte]

Read this blog entry :)

[white-worms]

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[Rikki]

The skin will be strict. We will be doing our best to ensure user-posted content is also strict but that's very hard to guarantee. But all default BBCodes will also comply with XHTML Strict, which should go some way.

Regarding the admin skin. The front-end and back-end will have very similar skins. They aren't identical - the needs of the ACP are very different from the needs of the board, but they are clearly similar.

Our aim is to ship at least a couple of different styles of skin with IPB3 (so, not just color variations, but perhaps a complex and simple skin).

[Tony]

Regarding the admin skin. The front-end and back-end will have very similar skins. They aren't identical - the needs of the ACP are very different from the needs of the board, but they are clearly similar.

Would be awesome if the IP.Board 3 AdminCP would be a copy of IP.Nexus one. I really like how you designed IP.Nexus ACP Rikki, I think all users who tried IP.Nexus love it. :)

[Rikki]

The code for the ACP is actually based on Nexus. The interface will look different though - it needs to remain somewhat familiar to IPB users who've never seen Nexus.

[Guest]

Please don't overload the ACP with javascript like Nexus had. That was the one turn-off for me. :(