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Discussion of general topics related to the new release and its place in the world. Don't discuss new features, report bugs, ask for support, et cetera. Don't use this to spam for other boards or attack those boards!
SHS` wrote:
Whilst that is true in the Queen's English, who knows when it's American English... how many times have you seen "I could care less", when in the Queen's English it should be "I couldn't care less".
Ya, and when someone says "All but..."
Like "He is all but dead"...shouldn't that mean that is is everything except dead? Not over here...it means he is dead.
SHS` wrote:
Whilst that is true in the Queen's English, who knows when it's American English...
I'll bet even in the starched collar of the Queen's English using "creepy" for "creep" suggests something on the lighter side.
For the rest of you with zero sense of humor, it can't be feature creep if it's not finished, finished being determined by a previously existing feature list.
SamG wrote:
I'll bet even in the starched collar of the Queen's English using "creepy" for "creep" suggests something on the lighter side.
Quite.
SamG wrote:
For the rest of you with zero sense of humor, it can't be feature creep if it's not finished, finished being determined by a previously existing feature list.
Indeed. Being back on topic, phpBB3.0.x has a fixed feature list which CVS is rolling towards first beta and all that in the near future. Also, phpB3.2.x is effectively feature frozen too, since those were things originally earmarked for phpBB2.2 before it became phpBB3.0... where the "nice to have, but will work on later" stuff being pushed back one minor version.
Thusly... any new features are unlikely to be added any time before phpBB3.4... or phpBB4.0 if it comes to the simple fact API is broken again in the need to move forward.
SamG wrote:
I'll bet even in the starched collar of the Queen's English using "creepy" for "creep" suggests something on the lighter side.
Quite.
SamG wrote:
For the rest of you with zero sense of humor, it can't be feature creep if it's not finished, finished being determined by a previously existing feature list.
Indeed. Being back on topic, phpBB3.0.x has a fixed feature list which CVS is rolling towards first beta and all that in the near future. Also, phpB3.2.x is effectively feature frozen too, since those were things originally earmarked for phpBB2.2 before it became phpBB3.0... where the "nice to have, but will work on later" stuff being pushed back one minor version.
Thusly... any new features are unlikely to be added any time before phpBB3.4... or phpBB4.0 if it comes to the simple fact API is broken again in the need to move forward.
I cant possibly see what else could/would be needed as far as features go. The features i wanted ( We already discussed ) thankfully can be easily added via a mod.
My guess would be this has to do with ajax?
There will be no AJAX in Olympus (unless Meik has something up his sleeves, but those sleeves would have to be enormous!). When you are using it, you have to make sure to always have a fall-back for non-javascript browsers or hand-held devices. I doubt there is a cellphone out there that is able to use AJAX. 3.2 on the other hand could build upon 3.0, using the existing "static" framework and implement it where it makes sense.
dhn wrote:
There will be no AJAX in Olympus (unless Meik has something up his sleeves, but those sleeves would have to be enormous!). When you are using it, you have to make sure to always have a fall-back for non-javascript browsers or hand-held devices. I doubt there is a cellphone out there that is able to use AJAX. 3.2 on the other hand could build upon 3.0, using the existing "static" framework and implement it where it makes sense.
I have honestly wondered what the big deal with it is anyways?
I would have liked to see a few additional features, such as the referal mod, but I know that it should be pretty easy to do mods for Olympus
SamG wrote:
The risk being taken in "harmless" tags is in the attributes, particularly the event handlers.
Right, though I've never seen this abused, it is a good reason why everything has turned to BBCode, it makes it a lot easier to specify how HTML can be displayed.
It also makes it fairly easy to use, and there are a lot of really cool tricks you can perform using custom BBCode.
NNO-Stephen wrote:
that's just it though, if your site for instance, reads out of the phpBB database for something and it doesn't use the BBCode parser at all, then it can interpret HTML as HTML, and display it as such, whereas BBCode would be displayed as just text.
thats the problem, not the inability to display certain things because BBCode doesn't support it, that's always been fixable anyway and it's finally going to become really supported with Olympus which I'm very glad about, but the example above is why I'd prefer we still have the ability to define HTML in the ACP, at least in a limited fashion.
and it's only a security risk if the board admin is a friggin' idiot and enables script and object and a ton of other *beep* like that which people shouldn't need under any circumstances.
I find Olympus so fast that I highly doubt adding HTML ability will cut down that much on parse time, especially since it still has to look up what HTML is permitted, in this case, it will parse the BBCode that it detects, turning it in to the predefined HTML.
Highway of Life wrote:
I find Olympus so fast that I highly doubt adding HTML ability will cut down that much on parse time, especially since it still has to look up what HTML is permitted, in this case, it will parse the BBCode that it detects, turning it in to the predefined HTML.
I think what he meant is when you use phpBB posts outside phpBB (say for a news script that takes all posts from one forum) as opposed to parsing html within phpBB.
Lieutenant Clone wrote:
I think what he meant is when you use phpBB posts outside phpBB (say for a news script that takes all posts from one forum) as opposed to parsing html within phpBB.
