Absolution updated to 3.0.7

Just days after the development team released 3.0.7, I’m pleased to announce that Absolution has been updated to 3.0.7 – and has some cool new features. Here’s what’s happened since 3.0.6:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the “No CSS” problem that some users experienced whilst logging in / logging out of the forum. This was caused by a connection to jQuery that didn’t actually need to be there.
• The “Mark All / Unmark All” links on the PM inbox page are now visible. Some users had correctly noticed that the links had been coloured White on a white background, rendering them unreadable.
• The “PM Icon:” and “Subject:” labels are now also visible. These had also accidentally been coloured white on a white background.

Changes

• Collapsible Categories have been removed for this release. A new piece of code in forumlist_body.html caused the collapse category code to break. I plan to code in a new and improved collapse category feature in future releases (Ideally 3.0.8 or 3.1).
• Improved the appearance of Polls within topics.
• Re-coloured “En” buttons (New Topic, Post Reply etc…) to blue as opposed to Red. The forum / topic icons are remaining untouched for the time being.
• Improved the appearance of the rules box – it’s now far more noticeable.
• Bullet Points inside unordered lists now have a custom list style image (blue arrow).
• Code boxes have had a minor lick of paint. They’re now light blue.

New Features

• Users of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera will now notice a new Quote Box inspired by the ones used in vBulletin 4 (speech bubble complete with rounded corners). Internet explorer users will continue to see the classic quote box.
• There’s now an option to show a jQuery tooltip when you hover over a forum name in viewforum_body.html. The tooltip simply contains the corresponding forum’s description. Instructions to enable this feature can be found commented on line 4 of viewforum_body.html.
• Absolution now supports fluid width!. Since the day of its release fluid width has been one of the most requested features. Administrators can now choose a width for their forum by editing

  /styles/absolution/theme/forum-width.css

  . Clearer instructions are found commented within that file.

• Finally – Absolution has a custom view topic page inspired greatly by IPB3. Since day #1 I wanted Absolution to be simple, clean and easy to navigate. In my opinion phpBB’s default view topic page wasn’t quite clear enough, so I’ve gone the extra mile and completely re-coded it to look clean and fresh. Features of the new page include: Red/Green user icons next to the username to indicate a user’s online status, clear post control buttons (Quote, Edit, Information, Warn, Report) and JavaScript flyout menu containing links to the poster’s profile, Private Message User, Email User and the User’s Website. The social network icons such as WLM, AIM, YIM, ICQ and Jabber retain their place below the poster’s information (Post Count, Join Date, Location).

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This is a pretty big release all things considered, and the style hasn’t been QA’d. So there may or may not be some bugs I’m unaware of (although I’m 99% sure I’ve cleared them all up). The style has been tested in FireFox 3.6, Safari 4, Opera 10.50, Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. I will not be supporting browsers below those, so if your users encounter any problems with the style caused by an older browser – you will have to ask them to update.

Download and Demo links can be found in the original Absolution release topic: Download Absolution.
Support will only be given in the phpBB.com Release topic: [Release] Absolution.

Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions. Enjoy the style