John Bokma wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ web based boards ] > >>> And which useful tools do you require? >>> >> A choice of news readers to suit different people with different >> interfaces, > > - different browsers, different stylesheets, different board styles > (themes).
But the UI is still *forced* on you by the website; no choice. There's only a very limited choice, and it invariably *includes* the UI. With NNTP *you* choose how to interpret and display the data you get. > http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ Great. How can I, the user, choose, how to use a mod on a given web server? What if the web server runs another board than PHPBB? >> A forum provides a >> single, usually rather limited, interface for the user with no way for >> the user to change it radically. > > Does the user want this? And with a user stylesheet you can change it > quite radically :-) The look, not the feel. > And in return the user gets: colors, fonts, font sizes, embedding of > images, flash, you name it. Moving avatars, even sounds. As I wrote earlier, you *could* run a web forum over NNTP, and use HTML posts instead of plain text. It would have the advantages of NNTP. > Oh, yes, I would love to see an XML interface on the board I use. Maybe > I can just install a mod, or write one myself. What would that XML be for? Any particular *use*? -- I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it. Dogbert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
