Tableless Tests

Here's my thinking, coming from someone who sees forums doing much more in the future.

In the past, forums were initially setup to handle user support for companies, so the boxy look was fine. Then regular users started grabbing Open Source code and using forums for all kinds of communities, that's when they ran into the boxy look dilemma. They wanted to style the forum to look like their sites and that's when Vanilla came along with a different approach but gave up the familiar forum feel.

The fact that the FluxBB design is so closely tied to the core code, a decision to go tableless or not holds a lot of weight. I don't know the answer, but I do know that in order for styles to get away from the boxy look, a CSS approach would be easier on the web developer.

One last thing, and I don't want to stray the conversation (thankfully we have split/merge if it does). The admin area uses the same scheme, today being Oxygen. Are there plans to make the admin independent of the front end?

God joob

Connor: Those nice people at Mozilla have done page zoom so badly they've managed to imitate an IE6 float dropping bug. Fortunately, the probem can be eliminated (apart from extreme zoom out) by changing a -1px margin to -2px.

Absolutely. Tableless is quite successful. Keep it

ok here are my suggestions,

1- Change all the dash dash lines to full lines espacially in profile area, which have allll dash dash lines. dash dash lines make the forum unproffesional, with afcource no offence to anybody.

2- check this image. http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4521 … 654lf6.jpg

3- i dont like the buttons styles in profile, could you please change it to some thing like this http://www.themespinner.com/demo/?wptheme=Chimera, that is just an example, i want it like when the mouse is over the button it change the color of that button. and when that button page is open also that button color must be changed.

4- in search page could you guys please change the background from white to suitable colour.

5- in the index page, i noticed that the bars of categories and not separated, it would look nice if they were seperated , and also the first bar, the blue one is not necessary, it would be bitter if it was removed, and by the way you choosed nice colours.

other then that absolutely great work, i will be soon upgrading my forum to the latest dev and then i will check the admin area.

Last edited by SuperMAG (2008-07-30 13:15:20)

well i didnt saw any other topic that discuss this matter so i posted here, To Mods: if you can move my post to suitable place please do it.

besides, these are just suggestions to improve the official template. in which most of template corrupted with the dash dash lines which i certainly dont like. and also the (IMPORTANT! Fields marked * must be completed.) which is not necessary.

and there is one tableless matter which is :

ok what is TABLE LESSSSSS,

and the dashes does look i dont know whats the word but it doesnt look right.

so you saying there isnt visual effect. hows that.

*gives in to urge*
*kills and maims brutally*

Tables are HTML elements, meant for displaying tabular data. They were used to represent the forum and topic lists, which, if you have half of a brain, can from that sentence already be figured out to be incorrect.
They were removed in favour of some more flexible markup, which is how it is now.

Got it?

I don't know if...
Well. Wouldn't it be good to use dl+dt+dd instead of ul+li to show that items have direct relationship with each other ?
(the only reasons I can see now is that we can't use h3 in the same time... or someone disagree with the use of definition lists for anything else than definitions)

Not worth being answered ?