Shoutbox

* WDZ bumps an old thread ;o

I was planning on fixing this issue with my rewrite of the post parser, but then I realized that even MyBB's new implementation of the list BBCode is flawed: it can't properly handle nested lists of different types (ordered and unordered) because "[/list]" might be ambiguous, and the parser won't know if it's meant to close an ordered list or an unordered list.

For example, the following list will result in invalid HTML in MyBB 1.4, and it won't look right:

• Category 1
  1. aaaa1
     
  2. bbbb1
     
  3. cccc1
• Category 2
  1. aaaa2
     
  2. bbbb2
     
  3. cccc2

The only simple and non-buggy way I can think of to get rid of the attribute in the closing tag is to introduce a whole new tag like [olist].

Anyway, I did fix some other stuff with this rewrite:

• The parser now requires the opening and closing tags to match, or they won't work at all.
  
• The [*] tag no longer works outside of lists.
  
• Improved handling of line breaks (spacing).
  
• Some other behind-the-scenes stuff you probably don't care about. =p

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Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ bumps an old thread ;o


I was planning on fixing this issue with my rewrite of the post parser, but then I realized that even MyBB's new implementation of the list BBCode is flawed: it can't properly handle nested lists of different types (ordered and unordered) because "[/list]" might be ambiguous, and the parser won't know if it's meant to close an ordered list or an unordered list.

For example, the following list will result in invalid HTML in MyBB 1.4, and it won't look right:

• Category 1
  1. aaaa1
     
  2. bbbb1
     
  3. cccc1
• Category 2
  1. aaaa2
     
  2. bbbb2
     
  3. cccc2

The only simple and non-buggy way I can think of to get rid of the attribute in the closing tag is to introduce a whole new tag like [olist].

Anyway, I did fix some other stuff with this rewrite:

• The parser now requires the opening and closing tags to match, or they won't work at all.
  
• The [*] tag no longer works outside of lists.
  
• Improved handling of line breaks (spacing).
  
• Some other behind-the-scenes stuff you probably don't care about. =p

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Why not just update and make all the modifications to 1.4 instead of staying with our current version!

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Originally posted by matty

Why not just update and make all the modifications to 1.4 instead of staying with our current version!

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because that would require effort

and i think i've heard somewhere that wdz is lazy

tbh, fixing things and not upgrading is better than not fixing them at all

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Originally posted by matty
Why not just update and make all the modifications to 1.4 instead of staying with our current version!

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Hmm, what's a nice way of saying 1.4 still sucks and I don't want to use it? I spent lots of time testing it in August-September, and I wasn't very impressed overall. There are plenty of improvements, but it was full of bugs, and it was clear that some functionality had never been tested before public release. Heck, even some bug fixes were never tested and failed to actually fix anything, or they introduced new bugs.

Release announcements with lists of reported bugs: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4 (unfortunately all the reports are hidden away archived in a private forum)

The code is still a mess, too. It looks like no attempt was made to fix all the uninitialized variables, and if you increase the PHP error_reporting level for debugging, your screen will fill up with notices. Most of the code is poorly-commented, and some parts make no sense or lack a clear purpose, or are overly complex/confusing. All of that makes it harder to write modifications.

Rewriting this board's old post parser is a small project that makes an immediate improvement and isn't likely to break anything or cause any major headaches... I can't say the same about upgrading MyBB. ¬¬

Why don't you rejoin the development team to fix these problems?

well DZ.. why not implement some of the features from 1.4 into this Board? surely that would be easier than to update to 1.4 an then spend hours fixing problems

DZ would prefer to rejoin his Porn than rejoin the development team Mike