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Would a rich text editor not be merged if it didn't support custom bbcodes? That is the biggest road block to this and IMO it would be better to have something even if it isn't feature complete instead of nothing.

Again you are posting misleading information. Only some browsers understand use strict, the other browsers have the behavior I described. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/01/ecmascript-5-strict-mode-in-firefox-4/ Do you test in multiple browsers? If yes then this isn't an issue since you would catch t...

Why don't you give a real argument against this proposal rather then "examples" which either don't have anything to do with the subject or that reflect on something that is already phased out? As far as I'm concerned there is really no hurt, you just have to type 3 additional characters r...

Arty wrote:Point me to a modern forum software that doesn't work without JS.

I thought phpBB didn't care what other software did ...

You could always use JS Lint or JS Hint to catch when a variable would become global. I also suggest that in the name of a nicer diff, we use the following syntax for objects: var obj = {}; obj.foo = 'a'; obj.bar = 'b'; In fact, pretty much all of the relevant arguments can be applied to objects. Le...

brunoais wrote:Does not work for non js users.

You could argue that this feature is like AJAX, enhances the user experience but everything still works without it.

Custom bbcodes need interaction with phpBB API I wrote a lightweight BBCode parser in javascript that was similar to phpBB's. This could be used instead the phpBB API. It won't be the exact same as phpBB's parser but you could get it close. Here is a ckeditor plugin that uses that parser: https://g...

Animations are good to let the user know something's going on. It confuses me when I do something on a website and there is something actually going on in the background but since there is no indication of that I start making assumptions like "the website's broken", "the form didn't ...

Don't like specific kind of ads How often do you come across a site that installs malware? I've never understood why people limit their experiences because something could happen and that could is rare. Advertising is far from rare. I got sick of websites with those annoying JS-popups that require ...

Don't like specific kind of ads and to prevent abuse of javascript exploits. Some websites may try to abuse the security limits and try to find bugs that allows them to do something that can cause install of malware (as an example). If you don't understand the reason you are open not to use it but ...