Suggestion - Use of CSS

Hi Marc,

Stop supporting IE6 - you cannot be serious :)

We are moving in this direction. You'll notice we use CSS 3 features (mainly rounded corners / drop shadows) in 2012. We do intend to create many more skins soon and one of these will completely depend on CSS 3 for all gradients and rounded corners. This will be quite easy with how our skinning works.

I'm very keen to move away from images whenever possible in favour of CSS (we moved away from images for the various buttons in 2012 in favour of CSS). It's much easier to change and you don't need to modify Photoshop files if you want to localize buttons for example. Not to mention fewer requests on the page.

We do hope to take this to the next level in a future version of the forum. We want to provide a more graphical user interface for creating and modifying skins. For example I'm not sure if you've ever seen tumblrs theme editor / designer. This is very well done. To implement something like this we will eventually need to move away from images in favour of CSS.

Thanks for your feedback as always. It's nice to know we are on the right track :)

Kindest Regards,

Ryan Healey
Founder and CTO

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soniceffect	Posted 17/12/2011 19:22:40
InstantASP Veteran Group: Customers Last Active: 18/04/2012 10:22:39 Posts: 14, Visits: 200 61	Hi Guys, Suggestion for a future release would be to replace some of the skin with CSS equivelants. Personally would rather see the removal of rounded edges in IE8 and below in order to see the benefits of using CSS3 rounding on IE9 and all other browser. Would reduce the downloading of images from the server and speed up the product. Expecially as all Vista and above will be getting the IE9 update anyways shortly due to the change in the way that microsoft does its browser updates. Would also like to see the use of CSS gradients with images only being used higher up the cascade to account for explorer which cannot currently use them. However for this I would use a gradient that runs from grey to transparent and specify the background colour, this way its easier for people to change the colour of the forum without having to modify any images.
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soniceffect	Posted 19/12/2011 13:48:23
InstantASP Veteran Group: Customers Last Active: 18/04/2012 10:22:39 Posts: 14, Visits: 200 61	Another thought to this. Maybe place the colours in the database and replace them when using the CSS in a page. An example as follows: CURRENT .someClass a {color: #ffffff;} WOULD BE .someCLASS a {color: [IFTextLightest]} IFTextLightest would be in the database as the hex code #ffffff and would replace the placeholder text.
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Ryan Healey	Posted 19/12/2011 14:35:56
I dont see much sun Group: Administrators Last Active: Yesterday @ 13:22:53 Posts: 2,339, Visits: 22,736 7,714	Hi Marc, Stop supporting IE6 - you cannot be serious :) We are moving in this direction. You'll notice we use CSS 3 features (mainly rounded corners / drop shadows) in 2012. We do intend to create many more skins soon and one of these will completely depend on CSS 3 for all gradients and rounded corners. This will be quite easy with how our skinning works. I'm very keen to move away from images whenever possible in favour of CSS (we moved away from images for the various buttons in 2012 in favour of CSS). It's much easier to change and you don't need to modify Photoshop files if you want to localize buttons for example. Not to mention fewer requests on the page. We do hope to take this to the next level in a future version of the forum. We want to provide a more graphical user interface for creating and modifying skins. For example I'm not sure if you've ever seen tumblrs theme editor / designer. This is very well done. To implement something like this we will eventually need to move away from images in favour of CSS. Thanks for your feedback as always. It's nice to know we are on the right track :) Kindest Regards, Ryan Healey Founder and CTO Facebook \| Twitter \| Blog \| Docs 12 tips to improve your customer support Tags CSS
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soniceffect	Posted 19/12/2011 15:01:24
InstantASP Veteran Group: Customers Last Active: 18/04/2012 10:22:39 Posts: 14, Visits: 200 61	Sounds promising stuff Ryan :) Look forward to seeing future versions
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