Vbulletin Client Addon

[Baitona]

Hi All,

I have an idea in my mind, i have spent my whole week thinking of how to implement it in my forums, but suddenly i thought, i should bring it to the developers attention as i don't want to infringe the VB copyrights :)
and at the same time i might get feed back if you like the idea

let me keep it short and get to the point.

Members of your forum, keep visiting your forum, the same main images
i.e (the images, misc, avatars, buttons, .....)

will be displayed to them if not cached in their systems. the server will spend time and bandwith in displaying the main images and .js files to the member/visitor

my idea is to develop an addon client (zipped file), where the forum's member can download to his machine,
in my example to the C: drive, and extract the file creating the VB client on the machine

and on the server side, we can develop a Style to read from the Client folder (on the members machine-pc)

i hoop my idea is clear and will get attention, as it can speed the forum visit very very quickly, as the member will be displaying the main images which are existing in his machine-folder

Baitona

p.s
I have developed few API clients for ASP applications my self, and the idea will be great if it can be implemented for the VBulletin.

[TytanicTyler]

So you basically have the idea of having a computer application where you can check a board directly from your desktop.

That would be quite interesting.

[Baitona]

Well sort off

but in more details as an example

the current style images are located in
/images/buttons
(http://www.xyz.com/forum/images/buttons/)

in the proposed idea the images will located and refered to as
file:///C:/VBClient/images/buttons

[ragtek]

This method "many" onlinegames are using :)

[Wayne Luke]

It is doubtful that we would create an external client outside of current popular web browsers that are available. Developing such a client is an unnecessary use of resources that can be utilized elsewhere.