Site update - March 4th

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Site update - March 4th
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 04:22
Jayenkai	Right, people have been asking for more advance CSS abilities. I've looked at all my options, and I think the easiest way would be to make everything scriptable. That way, you can just build up your own HTML with it's own set of CSS bits and pieces. The main issue will be the inability to view your scripts on the actual site, so I'll be making a kind of Blitz-Compiler to compile your scripts into a small viewable set of html files. Basically, you'd have a set of .sss (Socoder Style Script) files, which are mostly html, which will also use any extra .css files you wish (it'd be your choice whether you allow css or not), and then all your images too. Then you run the BB which makes a few .html's for testing, and if all's well you'd then email me the bundle and I stick it on the site. The main problem is this. Once I've started doing this there's no going back. It's a one-way thing. So if anyone wants any weird annoying little bugs fixed on "SocoderV1" before I start on V2, then let me know so that I can fix them before fooking up the V1 script! Ta. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 04:49
TheMadProff	Cool, that will really help with my style When are you planning on releasing an SDK (Style development kit) -=-=- ''It works, but I'm not sure why it works...''
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 04:56
Jayenkai	I haven't the foggiest. I'm hoping to split everything down to it's seperate components. So to make a Forum page, you can either say [Forum] or you can make your own fancy table with [Author][Avatar][PostTime] and all that kind of stuff. So, as you can probably guess that's going to take a while to get everything working smoothly. I'll give myself a month. That should be enough time.. Unless I get sidetracked. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 05:06
TheMadProff	Cheers Jay, i can't wait Out of interest... Will you be able to convert old styles into new ones? -=-=- ''It works, but I'm not sure why it works...''
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 05:30
Jayenkai	Yes. There'll be a large "Style.ini" file, listing all the different types of templates you're including. (eg, Wed Workshop list, Forums, Showcase, etc) If you don't include a template for a specific type of page then the plain template will be used, along with the normal Default.css, and all the regular bits and pieces. I'll get it to also do that if there's no Style.ini, so that all the current themes should* work exactly as they do now. *But of course, I'm bound to bugger something up along the way, so they might freak out a bit. I'll try my best to stop that from happening -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 05:32
shroom_monk	Just make sure to back up SC V1 first (just in case you break something)! -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Sun, 04 Mar 2007, 05:46
Jayenkai	Well, I'm using a V2 script, and won't be going back to V1 unless there's something important to change. (v2 script is indexv2.php, feel free to try it out. There's no difference there yet, except for all the links now going to the v2 index. But don't stay on it too long, just incase I fookered something!) If I go back to V1 again, I'll probably forget to shift the tweaks back over to V2 afterwards, so I'm hoping there's nothing too big that needs doing over there! (Let me know if there is.) I'm leaving all the other files exactly as they are to be 100% sure that the new script is backwards compatible with everything that's come before it. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''