Nicolas Claris said:
Well
Im' happy that you did find the way to go...
Compliance with all OS and browsers is the everyday headache for the web developper...
Hence this is not our part but Vbulletin work we'll certainely make your remarks about that issue be known to them.
I understand your comments about Bill G. (remember, I'm a Mac user!) why don't you give a try to Netscape?
Thanks again
I shudder when I have to use IE, but I shudder even more with the idea of Netscape. Mozilla/Firefox seems to have become the de facto alternative for Windows users while Mac users default to Safari. SUpporting the aging Netscape users on campus is a daily nightmare for me because there is quite literally no support for Netscape and ajax applications act very wierd in it. When I design my sites, I check cross-compatability in IE, Firefox, and Safari (Opera tends to behave the same way as Safari - plus those three browsers encompass roughly 99.2% of the internet community).
In terms of the color scheme, I like it but I also find the black text easier to read. Higher contrast for text is much easier than lower contrasts.
As to the BBS code and special characters, is this an incarnation of phpBB? While I've heard of the VBulletin line, I was not sure if that was associated with the phpBB crowd. Anyway, the phpBB modifies nicely to include special characters off the character map, anda the entire site is also easily modifiable to several themes should the admin decide to let the users change as they see fit. (I did not go that route on my forum, as I wanted the users to all see things essentially the same way. Nice to know the customization is there though should I ever want to make it more feature rich.)
Here, OS really flip flops depending on what I am doing (at work) but I use the 10.4.3 flavor of Mac, and Windows XP Pro.
At home I have a Dell (sorry - can't afford the Mac yet), with a 1907FP monitor and the standard 15" LCD for all my tool pads (start menu, PS palletes, etc.)
Man, that was a long tangent:
My main point was that when I uploaded a jpg to test, it worked, but displayed as a link, not an image. This in and of itself is fine, but I would venture to guess that people would prefer to see images inline. I went ahead and changed it form a desktop upload to an embedded image and it displays inline now, but this also would require users to have an online image archive area already. Granted many do at places like smugmug, pbase, dpreview, and a host of others (my own little pond of ppl in SC have unlimited use of the gallery for the time being), but anyway, the ability to embed images from other sites might not be had by all. Just some food for though. (And don't go over to that thread to view image - it's a lame workup that went awry in many regards. Just figured I'd test an image and since that was the most recent one I was working on, it was the victim of the test.)