If you're a charter member...
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Simple Machines is pleased to announce the release of SMF 2.0 Beta 4 to Charter Members. This fourth beta of SMF includes numerous fixes for bugs reported since Beta 3, and includes a set of updated templates for the default theme, which have been designed to be more semantic to improve accessibility. It is important that Charter Members read this post carefully before upgrading their forum. Note that the public release of this beta is likely to happen within the next week.
Major changes since the last release:
Fixed a considerable number of bugs reported since Beta 3, including several bugs affecting internationalization.
Updated key templates for the default theme to make more semantic (These are the index, board index, message index and display templates).
Added new installer.
Strengthened protection against flooding the login and reminder systems in an attempt to brute force passwords.
Added back end code to allow theme variations (Such as different colors), which is not used by default but may assist theme authors.
Added resizer to the WYSIWYG editor window.
Semantic Templates
Please note that there is a risk that the new semantic templates may impact how other 3rd party or edited themes are displayed to the user after an upgrade. Whilst Simple Machines have carried out testing to identify and eliminate such problems, there's always a possibility that some problems will not be detected. As such, we recommend that people do not upgrade production forums until they have tested the impact of the upgrade. If you do detect problems following the upgrade please post a topic into the support board detailing the nature of the problem, and we'll do our best to assist as quickly as possible. Note that any problems that do occur are likely to be relatively minor, and easily remedied. If a problem does occur, and you fix it yourself, please post what the cause and fix were – so we can ensure the upgrader fixes these things for future upgrades.
Hmm....looks like posts are showing up under the signature line, no?
Or is this just something buggy with IE6 (which I'm using at work)?
Looks like it may be an IE6 issue. Posts/sigs look fine under Safari and Firefox.
I opened a thread on SMF in the 2.0 support (charter) area. I would've noticed had it done for me at home so I'm assuming it's got to be IE6 or something related to the pc I'm on here.
Gotta love having to implement cross browser support. Though, IMO support should only be mandatory for the latest browsers.
It's more than just that problem on this browser here. For example, the quick reply field I'm using right now allows me to type of f the edge of the screen about 5-10 words before it wraps it down the next line. It's like there's no width constraint.
Also, the rollover menus all flash white when hovering. Really ugly.
Oh well. It's going to get worse when people start using IE7 and 8 more. I downloaded 8 last night and it destroys my site layout just like 7 did if you don't turn on the compatibility mode.
eww, that's a little worse than I would expect. Though I know they've been working on the reply and post fields because of the WYSIWYG editor. So hopefully it'll be fixed. Though, I'm a little disappointed in the current theme team. They seem to be all about Firefox and even though I've brought up my fair share of IE7 issues the posts seem to have fallen on deaf ears so I just stopped asking. :(
Yeah, there were a number of theme changes. I posted this there too but the corner pieces of the menus (in the default theme) changed between this and the last beta. After stumbling around I finally noticed the difference in how they code them. In sstead of a small corner piece with the text cell using a background sliver, they combined it into a long background piece with the corner attached. I really don't get that. I haven't tested but if my menu text for my last main menu item happens to be something very long, I think it would break the background. I guess they count on you leaving "logout" or "register" as your last items.
The quick reply issue is really starting to annoy me though. I may start a thread for that one too.
Quote from: Mark on August 29, 2008, 12:35:34 PM
Gotta love having to implement cross browser support. Though, IMO support should only be mandatory for the latest browsers.
I can confirm this bug when using IE6.
Well, it is never mandatory of course; it is up to SMF which browsers they decide to support. However, the reality is that a large percentage of people still use IE6, so it I'd be displeased (to say the least) if SMF ignored it. SMF seem to be lacking expertise in HTML, CSS, JS, etc., these days.
This thread has a code fix (to ie6.css) that solves the post below the signature line in IE6.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=260588.msg1699125#msg1699125
You basically add this to ie6.css:
#forumposts .postarea
{
margin-left: 1%;
float: right;
}
I will wait for the final release.