Beta 5

[Mesmer]

me starts singing:

It's getting better all the time!!!

A big thumbs-up for the team!

[Brett B]

I love just about all of the skin changes Rikki has made. I'm a little weary of the (seemingly) lack of bg color for posts, though.

[AtariAge]

Woo hoo!!

..Al

[Energizer]

Yes, the new buttons are fantastic!

[Lewis P]

I love the skin now :cool:

[Pete T]

Its does look alot better and can see few changes well done guess :D

[Stuart 4]

the skin is a lot better now keep the good work up

[Rikki]

I love just about all of the skin changes Rikki has made. I'm a little weary of the (seemingly) lack of bg color for posts, though.

There's still a background color, just not a separate background color behind the author pane now :) Personally I think it's much neater now, though I accept opinions may differ.

[Brett B]

There's still a background color, just not a [i]separate[/i] background color behind the author pane now :) Personally I think it's much neater now, though I accept opinions may differ.

I agree, it certainly does look neat. So long as it's fairly easy to change in the CSS, I'm happy :).

[Ryan H.]

I have yet to notice any changes I don't like or wouldn't have made myself. Good job. :)

[Energizer]

There's still a background color, just not a [i]separate[/i] background color behind the author pane now

Personally I think it's much neater now, though I accept opinions may differ.

I'm positively surprised by their good work! I think better, you can not do that.

[Graeme S.]

Really love the new CSS changes! Very nice Rikki! Great work :) .

Calendar still needs some work though... :D

[Malefickus]

I agree, it certainly does look neat. So long as it's fairly easy to change in the CSS, I'm happy :) .

I'm just guessing, but I'd say that the author information CSS part is the <div class='author_info'> that I am seeing in the source.

[hello_there]

Wow, I really like this look! :thumbsup:

[Brandon D]

I really do like the CSS changes overall. It does offer a much cleaner feel. My only complaints is I really, really miss dbSyntaxHighlighter (the current one is a joke) and the different colors for the H3 block and the post_controls block at the start and end of posts (the two colors collide with each other between posts).

Love that quick reply is expanding again :P

[Rikki]

dpSyntaxHighlighter was nice, but I dropped it for a few reasons. First, the one we use now is the same one that powers Google Code, so it's absolutely proven. Second, it has built in methods for not blocking the page loading while it renders, which will speed up page rendering for everyone. Third, because it supports pre tags, even before it has run, code will look good, because it just looks like... code. Fourth, it supports auto-detecting of languages, so you can use the normal [ code ] tag, and whether you put in html, sql, php etc, it'll highlight it appropriately. Fifth, although dpSyntaxHighlighter has line numbers, it broke copy/paste, and so required a 'copy' link to put it on the clipboard; that link doesn't work with Flash 10 so will be useless in a few months time.

It does support line numbers but they have to be manually inserted in the output (in IPB context, inserted by IPB itself - not end users). We'll look into supporting it for 3.1 though :)

If anyone really wants dpSyntaxHighlighter back, it's easy enough to add back yourself. You just need to change the BBCode tag via the acp, then edit one template bit to load the dpSyntaxHighlighter JS instead of the current one.

[Brandon D]

Yeah, that's why I miss it - the line numbers and the alternating line colors.

[Graeme S.]

The calendar needs some work :) , and I still think the rules at the top of the forums have far too much white space. Otherwise, still thinks it's awesome.

Quick edit test.

[Charle]

It's starting to appear like a really ready IPB 3 official skin, Rikki. Well done. This may be a little off-topic, but is there an overview of what new small things you can click to perform neat things? Like the renaming a topic's description by clicking on it in the index of a forum, etc. Hope I'm clear. Great job, and I look forward to the finished product, of course. :)


-Charle

[Logan]

The board index now looks fantastic... new cat headers, latest news box, buttons - great job Rikki! Very polished looking.

There's still a background color, just not a [i]separate[/i] background color behind the author pane now :) Personally I think it's much neater now, though I accept opinions may differ.

I agree, it looks a lot better this way - neater :)

[Genestoy]

Looking good Rikki :rolleyes: and thanks to all the developers for the upgrades we can't see yet!

[Andrew-T]

I like the upgrade great job!

Can't wait for Public Beta 5 to download so I can see more fixes in other areas!

[Mert]

It looks awesome now! Especially the index page...

Good job, Rikki :)

[Luke]

Rikki, does this mean that every other post no longer displays a different shade background color (striping)? Or can you still do it this way in the CSS without changing the template? I ask because on our forum we show a small graphic in the bottom right hand corner, alternating two different ones every other posts (Kim usually does this in her skins).

Other than that, everything looks great. My only nit-pick is the scriptalicious effect for the board index is, and always has been, a bit unnatural. What I mean is if you collapse a forum category the top part of the header seems to grow a bit instead of staying the same size (at least this happens in Safari).

Things are looking great guys! Keep up the good work. :thumbsup:

[Graeme S.]

Other than that, everything looks great. My only nit-pick is the scriptalicious effect for the board index is, and always has been, a bit unnatural. What I mean is if you collapse a forum category the top part of the header seems to grow a bit instead of staying the same size (at least this happens in Safari).

That's actually in the css code:

.category_block h3.collapsed {

  border-bottom:8px solid #243F5C;

           }

You can change it yourself .