[3.0.4] BF_Vista Style

[mrmax Max Lexandre]

Did the devlopment of this Template Stoped?!

Well version 3.0.2 already outs months ago and continues 3.0.1, no suport, no update... what's happening?!

[ferrer94 Ferrer]

I think that "Ika" is to busy with the other style, the "Glacier" :X
Hey... we want support of this template it's so cool!

*Sorry for the bad english*

[topdown]

First thing, these styles are easy enough to update from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 if you really want it.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 5#p6138115

Second, keep in mind that the people that make mods, styles and also phpBB itself do this on their free time, so if their free time is limited, well
there is not much that can be done about it, you can either do it yourself or wait until the author has time.

[Davidcvi]

Hi there,

I'm using this BF_Vista style, and I think it looks really good!...
in Firefox
Wenn I'm using IE7 most of the text looks awfull, viewforum for example. The text in posts in viewtopic however looks fine, the font is different there.
I've noticed this on other boards which use this style too, it's not a specific problem with just my copy of IE7, as I have looked at some screenshots here, and some of them had the same odd font.
I have tried just about everything I could think of in my stylesheet file, even changing to a completely different font doesn't do the trick (yes I do purge the Cache after codechanges), the font is different, but still looks bad compared to FF.
Is there a fix for this issue?

[Davidcvi]

The problem appears to be in this piece of code in my stylesheet:

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td.transOFF {background-color: #d1d1d1;opacity:.95;filter: alpha(opacity=95); -moz-opacity: 0.95;border-bottom:0px solid white; }
td.transON {background-color: #d1d1d1;opacity:.80;filter: alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity: 0.8;border:0px solid black; }
td.trans25 {background-color: transparent;opacity:.25;filter: alpha(opacity=25); -moz-opacity: 0.25;border:0px solid black; }
td.trans75 {background-color: transparent;opacity:.75;filter: alpha(opacity=75); -moz-opacity: 0.75;border:0px solid black; }
td.trans2OFF {background-color: transparent;opacity:1.0;filter: alpha(opacity=100); -moz-opacity: 1.0;border-bottom:0px solid white; }
td.trans2ON {background-color: transparent;opacity:.60;filter: alpha(opacity=60); -moz-opacity: 0.6;border:0px solid black; }


IE handles the opacity feature differently wich causes the font to have jagged edges.
Is there a work-around for this problem?

[Davidcvi]

Hmm am I the only one who is using this style, and wants it to look good in IE?
Well I can't blame you for not using IE, we would probably all be better off without it, but I don't believe Microsoft will be filing for bankruptcy in the near future, so it will be around for some more years, and there will be people who do use it.
Internet Explorer turns off Cleartype wenn a filter like opacity is applied, and that causes the font to look bad. I've googled quite a lot to find a solution for this problem, but I've found nothing that works for me.
So for now, I've made a simple workaround:

Replace:

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td.transOFF {background-color: #d1d1d1;opacity:.95;filter: alpha(opacity=95); -moz-opacity: 0.95;border-bottom:0px solid white; }
td.transON {background-color: #d1d1d1;opacity:.80;filter: alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity: 0.8;border:0px solid black; }

With:

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td.transOFF {background-image: url('./images/transoff.png');   background-repeat: repeat-x repeat-y; border:0px; }
td.transON {background-image: url('./images/transon.png');   background-repeat: repeat-x repeat-y ; border:0px; }

Include two png images (transon.png and transoff.png) with the right color and opacity in your images folder, and as far as I could see, BF_Vista looks good in IE7.

Unfortunately there are as allways some drawbacks when things appear simple.
-I don't know if other versions of IE can handle this way of featuring transparancy.
-Sometimes you can't use a background image that easily, this can be a problem when you're using mods, like a portal for example.
I do hope some of you smart guys out there have a better solution, I would be really thankfull

By the way, is there a way to let IE use a different stylesheet, and all the other browsers the usual?

transparancy.zip

2 png images with bf_vista color and opacity

(612 Bytes) Downloaded 55 times

[ferrer94 Ferrer]

*Sorry for the bad english**Sorry for the bad english**Sorry for the bad english**Sorry for the bad english*

In this forum, the autor's blog have a simple "hack" to fix the transparency in IE6, try it =D
I'm gonna test your way to fix the font and later if is working =D

[Jaymie1989]

For all of you that still want to use this style i have updated it for you to phpBB3 3.0.3

BF_Vista_Static.zip

(701.63 KiB) Downloaded 148 times

I have only updated the static version.

Please Note: I am not offering support for this style

[ferrer94 Ferrer]

i Know you are not oferring the support but... where did you ghet the instructions for update? I did a lot of changes in my Style and belive me, it's not easy do this again... There's not another way?

[Sniper_E]

I don't know where they would have the updated changes listed. I looked at .com and didn't see it.
I'll run a diff on the server and see if I can come up with a list of edits we need to do for the style templates.

Let me see if I can come up with something in a minute....