Comments on new SMF theme

[nitins60]

Althoug i liked overall theme! still SMF s lacking in graphics section compared to modern world. Still old fashioned post icons, really need huge development in themes section! Hopefully, i can see public beta version with nice default theme! Please

[TheGamer]

I can't believe you guys released this theme with so many bugs.

[青山 素子]

I can't believe you guys released this theme with so many bugs.

There were certain extenuating circumstances. Please don't ask for more info on that.

[Rudolf]

I'll wait until you sort out this theme. It is so bad that I had to go back to the SMF Core theme when browsing the forum. Loosing all the integration stuff with the website.

[motumbo]

I can't believe you guys released this theme with so many bugs.

If developers never released code until all the bugs were gone I don't think there would be a single piece of software in existence.  5-1/2 years after Microsoft released WinXP they are still fixing bugs!

Besides, putting this theme out live lets us users help find the bugs and other peculiarities.  We might find something the developers missed.  And if that's the case, then they can fix it before releasing it to the public.

Also:  To my knowledge IE does handle fonts in point values well.  12pt is aproximately 9px...or is it 10px?  Regardless, points are the best in my view and what I always use on my sites.  Ems? Pbbbt!  Does .75 ems look best or .74 ems?   

It doesn't matter because if the presentational code is in the CSS it will be very easy to change to whatever we want for our individual installations.

[Joshua Dickerson]

motumbo: does 11pt look good or does 10.5?

[motumbo]

motumbo: does 11pt look good or does 10.5?

Is there such a thing as .5pt?  I've never tried it.  I just stick with whole numbers. 

[青山 素子]

Yes there is. There are no partial pixels however.

BTW, point, em, and ex units vary depending on the display dpi and font. Macintosh uses a different dpi, so things will be smaller on them.

Also, using something like percents and ems means you are working off the default size in the browser, which could be 16pt or 14pt (or something else entirely).

And people wonder why some choose to stick to pixels for units....

[codenaught]

I'm kind of surprised of some of the reactions about this theme. Put the bugs aside and I actually like this theme better than Core. But I am sure there is still a lot to come with this theme so that hopefully more people will start to like it. The new site theme looks great IMO.

[Harro]

There were certain extenuating circumstances. Please don't ask for more info on that.

What are these extenuating curcumstances?  Could you give a bit more info?

But it definatly seems that there are a lot of mixed opinions about the new theme.
Some really like it, some think it's just plain ugly...

[青山 素子]

There were certain extenuating circumstances. Please don't ask for more info on that.

What are these extenuating curcumstances?  Could you give a bit more info?

Sorry, but no. If and when it is appropriate to do so, it will be shared.

[TheGamer]

Well I don't need to know I was just commenting that it wasn't like the SM.org team to release something like that.

No offence!!

[Col]

Col: that will.

You mean that IE6 will resize text that uses px values with that CSS? Are you sure?

[Sverre]

I'm not too keen on some of the colour combinations, and like Rudolf, I hope the header will undergo some drastic changes. I think it has potential though, and I very much look forward to follow its development. I'm also very glad you didn't wait until late RC to present it (like with Core), so there's plenty of time to work out bugs, and if needed, add functionality

[Gobo]

very good theme - love it

definatelya great choice as default theme

[Joshua Dickerson]

Col: that will.

You mean that IE6 will resize text that uses px values with that CSS? Are you sure?

Try this:

Bloc: http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

This should work in all browsers:

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body {
font-size: 75%;
}
 
html>body {
font-size: 12px;
}
 
p {
line-height 1.5em;
}


[metallica48423]

I've found a couple more small bugs in the new theme, so i thought i'd report them.  I am using FireFox 2.0.0.3

1.)  Collapsing/expanding the blog category causes it to disappear  When i collapse the blog category, it completely disappears. This is the ONLY category this happens with.  The others all collapse, however, theres a problem with their collapses as well.   And no -- if you look at my ignore boards options (which don't work as of yet anyways)  They are not ignored

2.) Collapsing displays short block It is styled, but not the correct width.  I'll attach a screenshot (note the lack of the blog category from being there, as well.)

Also, IMO, that puke green color in the catbg, should be made the gold-ish color thats in  the Posted by: area of the topic summary within the post form.  It'd look better IMO.

[LiroyvH]

I really miss this part, for example:

Simple Machines Community Forum > Simple Machines > Site Comments > Topic: Comments on new SMF theme 

At the bottom of every post...
it now only lists this (as links as always), at the top...
which is quite annoying, as you have to scroll all the way back to the top if you want to change your current position on the boards, imho


Yours,
- Liroy

[codenaught]

I really miss this part, for example:

Simple Machines Community Forum > Simple Machines > Site Comments > Topic: Comments on new SMF theme 

At the bottom of every post...
it now only lists this (as links as always), at the top...
which is quite annoying, as you have to scroll all the way back to the top if you want to change your current position on the boards, imho


Yours,
- Liroy

I am pretty sure that that will be added back when the developers get a chance to do it, perhaps after they fix the initial flow of incoming bugs.

Thanks for the comments everyone.

[metallica48423]

just an update on my previous post...

I found the blogs board..

it ended up ALL THE WAY at the bottom, below the bottom ad.