News regarding vBulletin development
I spent quite a lot of the last few months working on the vB4 style. Obviously, there was a lot of HTML to convert to the proper semantic style. Kier converted a lot before he left and I was assisting him in that process. There was just too much HTML to convert for one person so Alpha is very much an alpha in terms of the style. It is very rough around the edges and usability is being worked on. A few days ago I added a popup to the editor that allows a video url (youtube, ...
It has been almost 4 months since I posted a blog entry. Sorry about that. I have really had nothing concrete to post. I have been heavily into creating mock ups of the existing templates for the new style. Presently, I am converting the mockups, along with some of the support team, and others at IB, into functional templates. I have just finished getting the WYSIWYG editor functioning in the new style. vB4 has a new menu system, which is used for the Fonts, ...
Here is the second demo of the asset manager. I was under a hurry so please bear with me. The screencast recorder seems to have a few issues as my audio was cut off in a few places. I also forgot to mention that you can resize each of the panels by dragging the borders. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQeZXceqH
I have continued working on the asset management system that I previously demonstrated. The system looks and behaves much differently than what you have seen so far. I have applied a lot of polish to the interface, added a multiple upload system using flash, and added upload progress bars. Managing multiple attachments/assets at once is now possible as well by ctrl-clicking on a thumbnail. The blog is now working on vB4 as well. I have integrated the new attachment system into Blog ...
As I have mentioned previously, a big change in vBulletin 4 involves the attachment system. I am currently working on a system that allows you to quickly reuse attachments through vBulletin and vBulletin products. .. and so I have done a run through of the current state of the system for you to view. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQn1o7nPG If you didn't notice, this uses javascript, a lot of javascript, so if you don't have ...
