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The Classic YaBB SE Theme. A great clone of the YaBB SE theme created by [Unknown] for SMF RC2.

Initially released with SMF 1.0 Beta, this theme brings the classic YaBB SE feel to your forum with whites and blues.

Runic:
Please remember this theme is only for 2.0 RC2

ncrawler99:
Epic fail guys. :'( Who's responsible for this release? It's incomplete. Did anybody even look at it before releasing? I suspect nobody cares as is evidenced by the theme relying on 'compat.css' and it's comments, but I've been pointed here to report the issues. There are way too many to give images or list them all, but I will list the biggest offenders. It's really easy to see all that I am talking about. Just load up RC1 with classic theme and compare with RC2 classic theme.

It was asked I give browser and OS:
Firefox
Windows XP

This is just what I notice as the worst. I can't believe somebody would release this as finished. Let me know if you have any questions. I will gladly look at an improved version.

Linktree:
- Blank line below linktree on message and posting pages. This line was not present in the RC1 version and it's not present on the RC2 main index and message index pages. It's causes because of the template restructuring and how linktree was moved into template_body_above().

Search Results Page
- no borders on any data cells. Was correct in RC1 version.

Profile Page
- Avatar and associated icons text are all wrong. They should be on the left hand side like they are in Curve. Was correct in RC1 version.

Post/Edit Pages:
Too numerous to mention all, but basically everything is slammed to the left. Should look like it does in Curve layout wise. Was correct in RC1 version.

Personal Message Inbox
- There are no borders around any data cells.
- The quote, reply and delete buttons don't appear
- They are stacked vertically anyway on top of the check box.
- There's no border or delineation between the message header and the body.
- The icons underneath the avatars are wrongly stacked vertically.
 I'd guess lack of CSS applicable to this page, but I didn't investigate with detail. All these issues didn't exist in the RC1 version.

Moderation Center:
- No broders on any data cells for warning log listing.
- No borders on any data cells for warning details page 'Moderator's Comments' or 'Actions taken by other moderators' tables.
- Same with 'Watched Members - Member ' table.
- Same with  'Membergroup Requests' table.
- Most all tables have no borders.

Administration Center:
-No border on any data cells for Memberlist table.
-No border on any data cells for Membergroups list table.
-No border on any data cells for Permissions table.
-I don't think any table has any borders of any kind come to look at it.


One of the largest offenders are tables. I'd guess many of those common issues may be caused by the same problem.

Runic:
Actually I am, the reason it is tables is cause this is how classic was originally coded, this theme and babylon went through alot of tests before it was released, why should we re-invent the wheel when its done, the reason why this theme was removed from the package was as they are being phased out as they are badly coded, there is also alot of inline styles ... so maybe check before you critisice ... oh and bohoo

ncrawler99:
I know why it uses tables and inline styles. I've been around since before YaBB SE. It's part of the job of creating a theme for RC2 to correct those issues or at least emulate them by other means. I'm not saying re-write the entire thing, (but that is an options), but surely you can make it look better than it is. Surely you can at least get the personal message buttons to show up and center a few buttons regardless of some legacy tables and inline styles. I know you can because I've done so for myself.

What I don't know is why you released a broken, incomplete classic theme for RC2. If you're not going to bother to finish it, why release it at all and pretend it works with RC2 when it doesn't?

Clearly I was right. Nobody cares about it anymore, it won't be fixed, and it's deprecated. Just say so. That's fine, just don't release this theme at all pretending you're going to make one that works with RC2. You just cause problems like this poor guy.

Don't you see the problem here? You're telling everybody the theme is old, it's being phased out. Then you go and release a new version of the classic theme and say it works with RC2 when it really doesn't. :o

I'm sorry for being harsh, but this mentality just doesn't make any sense. It also doesn't make sense that this phasing out was started AFTER a release candidate was already released, but that's another story all together. I just don't get how business is being done here. This theme in it's present form is likely not useful to anyone.

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