Diana Notacat

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It's a good topic for discussing, since I've seen so many mixed feelings about it! Hell, I have mixed feelings about it myself.

On the one hand, I do love that I can edit style settings for every little thing. It does make customizing and nitpicking fun to do.

On the other... trying to find what you're looking for the in mess of style variables is a real pain in the ass. I think they need to add better descriptions about what each stylevar edits.


How has your experiences with it been?
 
To be honest It's not been too bad, sure it a little time to get used to it. IPB went in a similar direction with templates, you could argue their syntax is a little nicer but each to their own.

It's a shame you have to drop variables into templates during the PHP stage now, but it eliminates that horrible eval :)
 
I have two complaints about the system:

#1, it's probably only 50% implemented as far as adding in stylevars for everything that should have them.

#2, the stylevar "editor" is a pile of crap. =)

I think the idea and such is great, it's just currently only a half baked feature in a full release product. If you keep your site a bright color and whatnot, it's nowhere near as bad. If your site is like mine with a dark theme... it's a real pain in the ass and you can really see what's broken, etc. I've hardcoded/use additional style vars for most everything at this point, but... it's annoying.
 

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I have two complaints about the system:

#1, it's probably only 50% implemented as far as adding in stylevars for everything that should have them.

#2, the stylevar "editor" is a pile of crap. =)

I think the idea and such is great, it's just currently only a half baked feature in a full release product. If you keep your site a bright color and whatnot, it's nowhere near as bad. If your site is like mine with a dark theme... it's a real pain in the ass and you can really see what's broken, etc. I've hardcoded/use additional style vars for most everything at this point, but... it's annoying.

Same could be said about the rest of the software. You can see where the new base code is, under the /vb directory - then the other half is as-it were in vB 3.8 :p
 
i reallydislike the new system, i don't think in my opinion it simplifies it at all, i'm a newbie coder and i have to say this new system is more confusing than the old one, its a real pain looking through the coding and skipping vb:this and vb:that. i much prefered the old style where you could do what you want, when you wanted and finding things was a hell of a lot easier.

But as with anything i'm sure once i'm used to it i might change my mind, but until then i'm praying they revert back to vB3.8's setup.
 
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