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If it wouldn't cause me to have serious frustration I'd build a similar app for Wedge and distribute it, so that forum admins could (like vB owners) create an app just for their forum, branded how they want.

But then I'd have to explain to admins that wanted to that they'd have to pay $99 to Apple in order to distribute it... Yeah, like I said, frustration.

Tapatalk can do attachments, which no theme can (on iOS anyway)

I still think the whole social networking thing is a fad, to a point, though the social networking thing is not really a million miles from forums anyway - just with much tighter controls on what you share and with whom.

Besides, the Internet was going to kill Usenet, and it didn't. Then social networks were going to kill forums, but I see no evidence that they're going to die out.

I think the social platforms like FB, Twitter, G+ are going to come down hard in the next few years. Firstly, I think users are going to stop accepting the erosion of their digital privacy in the name of profiteering, and I think in consequence there is going to be a gradual move off these platforms: relative anonymity with the ability to comment as you see fit under a pseudonym is going to come back into fashion!

Yes, adding social features - making it easier to share and discuss, but without taking away the implied group nature of things.If the groupie is who I think you mean (someone with an interesting take on language and his own special words), he's not the best coder in the world. That's not my being harsh, that's an observation based on the comments he's made and the discussions that he and I have had.And are 16 colour icons that common for us?That's a better solution really. Checking for both GIF and PNG is expensive since it's a file system call for every image, much better if you know there's a single point that's *going* to be correct, i.e. all GIF or all PNG, and if it's an all or nothing choice, I'd rather use PNG even if it slightly more expensive in some cases because I'd rather have the flexibility than the pure performance there.Perhaps like ColorizeIt does: http://www.colorizeit.com/styles/smf-20-themes/216.smf-curve.html

I do not particularly like this idea, though I don't have a reason for it.

A lot of our plans are public, but they want more social features.She doesn't have the skillset for it either.Can't say I've ever found that to be the case though... But as a theme designer it *does* make it easier on themers because then they're not bound by the 256 colour rule and can have alpha blended icons etc.

Yeah, the 2012 Olympics logo.

NOW who's posting too much information :P

It's clearly not based on 2012, after all, there's no cartoon character giving head if you squint at it.

It wasn't meant as harshly as you felt it was (there was a smiley there). But there is something about writing in a different colour, different font style/weight and size that doesn't say "Hey, I'm different because I'm a unique individual", it's says "Hey, I'm different because I want to feel important."

In my experience[1], people who use a different colour, different font style/weight and different size are very firmly saying "Look at me, what I have to say MUST be important." Not that what you're saying is or isn't important; but simply that people who format things differently almost always do so to get noticed, not because they want to demonstrate their individuality.

This is based on over a decade of visiting forums, at least.You, me, them, everyone. We're all different. We should celebrate it. But going out of your way to celebrate it by intentionally drawing attention to yourself comes across as less of a celebration and more attention seeking.

Yes, I remember Tasman. The problem is no different to the situation we have today: even if it were adopted into IE6 at the time, we'd still have the same schism that we see today between IE6 and 7, or 7 and 8, or 8 and 9. All the time the browsers have massive shifts in how they render things, people are going to hold off adoption, which means the new features don't hold water so much.

Opera's the classic example: it is widely considered to have a better grasp of the standards in terms of behavioural reproduction thereof than any of the others, but unless it goes mainstream and encourages the others to catch up, it ain't happening.

There are, even now, still places that push IE6 compatible stuff out the door, even as we approach a full decade since IE6 landed.

1.	And I'm willing to accept that you might be the first genuine exception to this rule.