Dial Up style

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 12-29-2005, 03:56

Yeah I really should go check that myself....Sorry I was lookign forward to reading my English homework (for once!) too much to think of that.

EDIT: I checked, the boxes are still checked, this style just doesn't support them.

**Rilder** · 12-29-2005, 07:19

ohh that style is as ugly as errrm... yo momma...i'l "suffer" with the RTW skin lol.... and HOW DARE YOU descriminate against us 56kers , we may have a small modem but were bigger in "other areas"

**TosaInu** · 12-29-2005, 13:16

Please explain discrimination?

I think this is an intermediate solution.

Originally, the Dial Up style (which can be used by anyone for whatever reason) did support avatars and signatures. The user can always turn that on and off in his userCP. But then I figured, that users can get caught (broadband, because the monthly bandwidth is expired and thus the rest of the month is 28k, broadband users without limits stuck in some download/upload, but I remember my narrowband performance dropping too) and then it would be nice to have a lite skin at the fingertips. The skinselector is in the left bottom of every page.

Right now, the archive is the lightest skin you can find, but it lacks reply buttons. So, there's still 'work' to do.

**Kekvit Irae** · 12-29-2005, 15:40

Can we get a PDA version? No tables, just straight html. As it stands, trying to type a reply using a mobile phone like the Sidekick sucks (horribly) as the form you enter the words in extends offscreen and there's a good chunk of white space on the left side that's doing nothing. Remove the tables and just give us a straight html version for those of us who use mobile phones and pdas to post on the site. (Oh, and it's impossible to click on the emoticon)

**KukriKhan** · 12-29-2005, 15:45

This is turning into a whole new development effort; members are increasingly referring to reading and posting content on machines other-than-PC's: phones,PSP's, PDA's.

the56K skin (viewed on my laptop) reminds me of the 'good-old' (plain, old) days of the Sword Dojo on uBB; a username, and his/her content...period. Nice.

**Just A Girl** · 12-29-2005, 16:22

I say its a nice addition, And would be very helpfull to dial up users.
Its admirable that the effort has been made to provide a new skin for dial up users at all.
i beleve its ok to debat the colour scheem and other little bits n pieces.
But isnt it a bit premature to start asking for more skins designed for pda's and stuff when theres still work to be done on this?

Prehaps I am incorrect in assuming that The disscussion about pda style skins would be best suited to a nother topic.
I beleve that the only things that should really be posted in here is praize for the Ongoing Efforts to improve this already great forum,
And prehaps a few minor probs some may have with the skin.

I hope that sounds like it did to me :)

**LeftEyeNine** · 12-29-2005, 17:06

But isnt it a bit premature to start asking for more skins designed for pda's and stuff when theres still work to be done on this?

You'd get loads of answers for this. While there's still time, I'm asking for better expressions from you..

Edit: So no possibility of actualization of my request, TosaInu ?

**Mouzafphaerre** · 12-29-2005, 23:46

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Originally Posted by TosaInu

Please explain discrimination?

I believe he intended that to be a joke.

Didn't you, Rilder?

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**KukriKhan** · 12-30-2005, 03:00

PDA style added

And it looks great.

Please join me in saying: "Wow!". Less than 3 hours after the subject is brought up...BAM! we get action.

Can anyone who connects via PDA, phone, etc take a pic of what the forums looks like on that device? I'm intensely curious to see.

**therother** · 12-30-2005, 07:21

This is how it looks on my PDA:

Much quicker loading times and better formatting. Quite usable now.

**Rilder** · 12-30-2005, 07:42

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

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I believe he intended that to be a joke.

Didn't you, Rilder?

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not about the part about being bigger in other areas...

Its a proven fact that 56kers are more fit and better and bed... after all we do have more time to "spend wit our women" and excersize.

Ladies how do you think Brad Pitt got so hot? HE HAS 56k!!

**Weebeast** · 12-30-2005, 09:13

Hey, cool stuff. The PDA one is kinda funky lol. BTw, does this mean DSL people can have fancy sigs?

**TosaInu** · 12-30-2005, 13:05

Originally Posted by Weebeast

Hey, cool stuff. The PDA one is kinda funky lol. BTw, does this mean DSL people can have fancy sigs?

Not just like that. Fancy sigs will include pictures of over 100 kb and more, that will be still too much for many. It's not possible just like that, to split the signature and display the heavy load in a broadband skin only and the text (which is often advertising for a mod/clan) in all others.

There's the option to make a broadband skin and have it display the signature and then the profilepicture (there are no sizelimits on that).