New Forum Look

Post by **tmerrill** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:20 am

Steve,

Thanks for your efforts with the new forum look and your recent changes to improve it.

My one request would be to make the dividing lines between posts darker. I think these are what you just made wider, but on my laptop screen I can hardly see them because they are a light color. A darker color would help me.

Tim

Post by **Jerry In Maine** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:16 pm

I especially like the music! Neat how the tune changes for each topic.

Post by **Jonesy** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:42 pm

Music??

What music?... anyone else get music?

Steve

Post by **Paco** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:57 pm

Even with the forum we get a super fast support!... and response!

Post by **Jerry In Maine** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:42 pm

COOL!
Got my favorite Beatles tune when I reloaded this time....
Ingenious!

Jonesy - you're one smart web designer!!!

Everybody should turn their volume up - this is great!

Post by **Sentinel** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:53 pm

Fontsize in textarea is maybe too big

Post by **Jerry In Maine** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:47 pm

OK folks - just kidding on the music. I might hear voices from time to time but I'm not - repeat - NOT - hearing music...no need for any more private messages, emails, etc.

Jonesy - received your "this forum is not the place for...." PM and you're right of course, but 'cmon now - certainly you didn't believe....

Post by **Gnarly Gnu** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:25 am

I am experiencing a couple of hassles with the new forum; I have to manually log in on each visit (despite asking 'remember me' each time) and the new posts are not being indicated as there were previously, even after I log in. Anyone else experiencing this?

Using Gates' dreaded IE7, might switch back to Firefox & see if that helps....

Post by **CRFultz** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:53 am

Og wrote:I am experiencing a couple of hassles with the new forum; I have to manually log in on each visit (despite asking 'remember me' each time) and the new posts are not being indicated as there were previously, even after I log in. Anyone else experiencing this?

Using Gates' dreaded IE7, might switch back to Firefox & see if that helps....

I get the same thing on the Vista OS but the XP seems to work ok, some of the times, on a good day, if I hold my foot just right

I have resorted to looking at post dates although I still miss some...

Post by **larrybadgett** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:16 am

I'm having the some problems. I would much preffer to just go back to the old forum!

Post by **Paco** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:47 pm

Would it possible to open attached images rather than to download them. I've checked with 3 different browsers and it look like the forum is configured to upload the attached images when I click on the thumbnail to see the larger version.

What I prefer is to open the larger images in another tabs (or at worse in another windows).

Post by **Colin P F** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:46 pm

Still can't make my mind up as I found no problem with the old look, I'm finding the new post folder is not highlighting when a new post is added.

Cheers,

Colin

Post by **larrybadgett** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:26 am

Seams really werd that in the old forum that I could hardly keep up with the new posts. Now that we have a new forum look there are no new post even when you can get logged on. Yuuk! Yuuk!

Post by **Gnarly Gnu** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:43 am

I have switched to using Firefox when I visit the Vectric forum and it is working fine, I don't have to log in again on every visit and the new posts are now being highlighted which wasn't happening using IE7.

But the way pictures insist on being downloaded rather than just opening in a new window or tab as previously is a bit frustrating & slower.

Hey, other than the little bad bits it's all good!

Post by **Sentinel** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:59 am

Pictures are downloaded because of the (for example):

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content-disposition: attachment; filename="IMG_4050.jpg"

...header that's being inserted (by phpBB, I guess).

It's been ages since I've been doing web stuff, but if I remember correctly, this will force browser to initiate download (and use provided filename as default, when save dialog opens).

Content-type header is correct and shows "image/jpg" (or image/jpeg - argh, just closed all data I was looking at

), but content-disposition messes it up.

I presume there is an easy way to prevent this header from being sent, in phpbb sources.

EDIT: Just checked 2.0.22 sources, and can't find an instance of content-disposition (especially in lowercase) being sent, so it might've been added by Vectric guys or some add-on/mod/whatever.

Vectric Customer

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