Just some niggles, and suggestions

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: New Zealand

First and foremost... a niggle: under Konqueror (KDE3, FreeBSD6.1), SearchIRC more often than not renders like it was just fed through a blender and the results heretofore spat on the screen (I don't know wether to blame the browser or the HTML in this case), but does the underlying HTML markup of SearchIRC conform to any W3C standard?

now... my suggestion: That SearchIRC move from phpBB in favor of Simple Machines Forum - for many reasons:

A lot of the modifications to phpBB (such as the neutering of the Network Announcements forum) is core to SMF by design
Permissions are easier to manage (such as drilling them down to certain tasks for certain groups of people) - an example being allowing topic posters in the NA forum to reply to their own threads (it saves seeing 20x <insert network of choice name here> topics one after the other on the same page)
I'm not a massive fan of phpBB after having tested it both on my own personal website, and on my local testing freebsd machine and comparing it against SMF head-to-head
The templating system is a lot easier to deal with (I recall one phpBB version, think it was 2.0.21, that complained endlessly because I had removed the memberlist link from the layout template)

Just some thoughts

Jobe · Posted: Dec 17, 2007 8:08am Post subject:

Im not sure about the template system but you can as far as I know achieve all that with phpBB3 now anyway.

Mary · SearchIRC Admin Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 692

Jason tells me there are technical reasons why we cannot change from phpbb without a significant amount of work for the staff - which we simply do not have time to do.

Jobe · Posted: Dec 18, 2007 8:05am Post subject:

Well at least one of the reasons is a technical reason relating to the SearchIRC control panels (which use phpBB's user database)

The password checking for that would need to be updated for a start. Although thats relativly small a problem and easy to solve.

Im not sure what other problems would arrise too though.

As for the phpBB3 option, as far as I know that uses the same password hashing as phpBB2.

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: New Zealand

Jobe · Posted: Dec 19, 2007 3:36am Post subject:

Jason · Posted: Dec 19, 2007 8:52am Post subject: Re: Just some niggles, and suggestions

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: New Zealand

yes, I get that rendering most of the time, but there's the odd time when it'll look totally fubar (every element crammed into the same windowspace) and only a refresh can sort that out

Jason · Posted: Dec 19, 2007 2:21pm Post subject:

I would assume it's a browser bug then, unless someone else with a different browser sees this.

SasukeUchiha · Lurker Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 114 Location: California