All this weekend, I have almost literally been tearing my hair out trying to debug a problem with an app I've been developing for IPB3. A debug statement in the top of index.php to var_dump($_GET) said that it was empty, but it turns out that it wasn't. That's an Apache/PHP bug/problem I think. It turns out that the root cause of my problem was that I hadn't got my code and folder structure quite correct, so that IPB couldn't find my application's executable code. Because of this, it was defaulting to the root URL for the board.
It would have been nice [and I would have slightly more hair] if IPB3 had given a warning message stating that although the application was registered in AdminCP, it couldn't work out which code to execute. Perhaps this type of warning could be given only if IN_DEV mode is switched on?
Firstly, I assure you, boards.nbc.com is pretty heavily customized all in all. Trust me - I've done a lot of work on it. ;)
At the end of the day, pushing support for IE6 for another year does JUST that, and we would be having this same discussion then (just like this discussion came up a year ago, and when IE7 first came out - those points we did agree it was too early to move away from IE6).
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