SMF 2.1 Beta 1 Released

[Mstcool]

I'm just curious to know... The day 2.1 gets released....will this support site be updated right away or after a while? And will the site be down for a while?

[Kindred]

...only the shadow knows....

[Mstcool]

Lool true true

[Masterd]

I'm just curious to know... The day 2.1 gets released....will this support site be updated right away or after a while? And will the site be down for a while?

There's also a chance that this site will be uodated during the RC stage.

[dsanchez]

I love the @mentions feature. I have a question: it will be possible to set all members to have their notifications (both by alerts and email) enabled by default?

[Sagar_king]

Their is no image preview for image attachment for 2.1

[Dylert]

Their is no image preview for image attachment for 2.1

I agree with Sagar-king. There should absolutely be an image-preview (thumbnails) for attachments! It's so much better to see a thumbnail of the images you are going to upload, rather than only a file-name.

[Illori]

there are previews for image attachments just like 2.0 had.

if you dont see them on your forum check your attachment thumbnail settings in the admin panel.

[Dylert]

I mean preview after an image is selected but before it's posted.

[Illori]

i really doubt that will be provided as SMF does not do anything with the attachment until you have submitted your message.

[Dylert]

It would have been a really great improvement!

[Arantor]

It's also a *massive* amount of work to implement correctly, and does not even begin to remotely justify the workload involved.

Let alone the fact that it's also borderline a security vulnerability in itself - and can be abused to lock out your site on the server in the worst case.

[Kindred]

yup....   that is not going to happen in 2.1. period.

[Steve]

I don't understand the desire for this ... doesn't one look at the picture before they attach it anyway?

[Arantor]

Apparently not?

[Mstcool]

I don't understand the desire for this ... doesn't one look at the picture before they attach it anyway?

Maybe they want to see how it looks posted on the forum because some forums have pics automatically resized to a specific size they want and so the poster might want to see how the pic looks like before its posted.

[Steve]

That's a possibility I reckon.

[Dragooon]

It's also a *massive* amount of work to implement correctly, and does not even begin to remotely justify the workload involved.

It's actually possible simply via JS, I might take a look into this if I get some time.

[Arantor]

It's possible via JS - yes through the File API.

The problem is, not all the browsers supported by SMF 2.1 support that. Meaning that you either need to do the server roundtrip (where it gets hairy and insecure) or you bundle Flash and possibly Silverlight components to fix the behaviour for the browsers that don't support it but that SMF 2.1 supports, e.g. IE 9.

This assumes the general standing policy of 'consistent behaviour between supported platforms wherever possible', of course.

[Dragooon]

This assumes the general standing policy of 'consistent behaviour between supported platforms wherever possible', of course.

I'm really sure that we do not have a policy of supporting 100% features on every browser (Desktop notifications for example), we try to do our best but I have no qualms against dropping support for arcane browser for features which aren't critical to the usage of forums