Phpbb Template for Portables - DEMO UP!

[Valium]

Even custom firmware gets boring eventually.

[ShockSlayer]

Oh yeah! I would love to have a version adapted for my pocket pc(dell axim x50v) and my psp.

Wait, are you a mod or an admin? Cause you act like an admin(good thing).

SS

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Wait, are you a mod or an admin? Cause you act like an admin(good thing).

Bic's "just" a mod, but IMO he should be an admin. Bic for admin! Vote now! (no not really)

[Kurt_]

Erm... he's been an admin for months now...

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

His title says otherwise.

[Kurt_]

Bicostp is orange.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Bicostp is orange.

I have no idea what you mean by that statement.

[vskid]

Bicostp is orange.

I have no idea what you mean by that statement.

In the "Who's Online" list, he is orange.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Bicostp is orange.

I have no idea what you mean by that statement.

In the "Who's Online" list, he is orange.

Ah, ok. So he's an admin, but his title is still "Moderator". But you can't tell that he's an admin unless you look at the "Who's Online"list. This is way too confusing.

[nightwheel]

Being somewhat fimular with the works of the phpBB2 admin pannel. Becuase I have and run a few phpBB2 based forums. And was admin on someone elses forum too. (I became inactive due to their unmorral antics. And their sometimes boraderline illlegal ideas. So they they demoted me because i was inactive.) There is a setting to where you can make someone look like a mod but be a full admin. Right down to the username color in the who's online thing.

[bicostp]

Actually, it's because I'm too lazy to change it.

[typamc95]

posting from my wing right now.Can't wait till this comes out.

[bicostp]

Problem is, most of the viewtopic body is tables, not CSS. (Plus, CSS support in some mobile browsers is hit or miss, while both Pocket IE and Opera Mobile 9 deal with the Javascript resize no problem.)

Want to see if Ben would be willing to add the resize script to the main forum's header? Huge pics are annoying, and I think changing the header template might actually save some bandwidth by using the external CSS file (instead of embedded CSS in every page.)

Sorry about the lack of a live demo; I've had a lot going on lately. It will be up soon.

[bicostp]

You can apply CSS styling to html markup regardless of the tags used to create a page, in the case of resizing images you could go into bbcode.tpl and add something along the lines of class="imagewrapper" which would have the max width and height properties. I am not sure about CSS compatibility though but it would seem backwards to support Javascript and not stylesheets.

I'm pretty sure JavaScript has been around and in use longer than CSS, so maybe it has better support in older and more limited browsers. (I'll have to hook up my old Mac and try accessing the server VM using Netscape 4 to be sure of it. Yeah, that's old school. )

I didn't think of changing the bbcode.tpl file. Will that also affect images in existing posts? (That's the main reason I jumped to a run-time script; we have about 4 years worth of posts that should be grandfathered in, for consistency's sake. The only other thing would be to run large images through something like ImageMagick to generate handheld size copies of images on the server's end. It would make pages load faster on portable devices, but I've never done that before and it would use more bandwidth and CPU time.)

You can cut bandwidth in overall_header by removing the text/css style tag and contents, and uncomment the link tag which leads to the exact same stylings in the external CSS file, as to why the administrator of such a large site would not have done this I am uncertain. There is a lot of fluff in the subSilver template that can be removed to cut down on bandwidth too.

Yeah, it's really wasteful. What the hell was SubBlue smoking?

EDIT: I copied the embedded CSS and saved it to a text file. Including the tags it's 8k. That doesn't sound like much, but remember that's 8k more than what needs to load that gets loaded every time you open a page. Putting that in perspective:

8k per page load
* 100 pages per user (this is actually a low estimate, and includes the forum listing, thread listing, viewtopic, and post editing pages.)
* 25 users per day (including guests, also a conservative estimate)
* 30 days (one month)
=
600000k OR about 586 MB of wasted bandwidth per month, just on CSS definitions that could be cached if they were in a separate file.

The actual figures are probably much higher than that, depending on how active everyone is.

[bicostp]

Remember this?

Well I finally got off my lazy butt and set up a test forum with it installed!

http://bicostp.portablesofdoom.org/proj ... /index.php

There's no script installed that automatically redirects you to the appropriate template (because I haven't gotten that far and don't know where to begin) so for now just sign up with your usual name and change the template in the profile window. (There is no account activation; just sign up and go.)

If you want to, leave feedback here or preferably on <a href="http://bicostp.portablesofdoom.org/punbb/">my board</a> so we don't clog up the server here. (You can leave some feedback on the demo forum itself if you want, but it probably won't last too long.)