Sooo how is everyone liking the new ENWorld?

[Scurvy_Platypus]

You know... I've never bothered with the front page. It was only because of this thread that I actually looked at it. I'm sure I must have seen the old front page at some point, but I really can't remember. The new one seems fine if that's the sort of thing you're into.

Me, I have a shortcut that goes directly to the forums and I go from there.

But the performance overall is nice, and there seems to be some other nifty new bits kicking around. If I was actually running a d20 game right now, I'd probably go ahead and take advantage of the blogging thing; since I'm not and I do have a LiveJournal account, I'll have to pass on the blogging thing for now.

 

[Kor]

I've recently adjusted the CSS so that now only Internet Explorer has scroll bars. Other browsers have auto-adjusting heights on the boxes. Internet Explorer doesn't fully display the images if the div height isn't explicitly set, yet another example of its thousands of violations of the CSS 2.1 specification.

Hrmm, yet another reason for me to consider trying Firefox. Everyone who uses it seems very satisfied with it, yet I have never even looked at it in use -- I may have to change that

 

[iwarrior-poet]

I have been using Firefox for the last 18 months. It is GREAT! I haven't even peeked at Explorer in awhile---so it might be making a comeback---but I prefer to stay away from MS when I can. Firefox 3.0 is very, very nice.

 

[Michael Morris]

Hrmm, yet another reason for me to consider trying Firefox. Everyone who uses it seems very satisfied with it, yet I have never even looked at it in use -- I may have to change that

Firefox 3 parses javascript 9 times faster than Internet Explorer. NINE TIMES... On any ajax heavy site it's impossible to tolerate IE once you've been on Firefox.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Thanks for the elimination of scroll bars! I'm loving it! (Safari user here! Give it up for all standards compliant browsers!) Thanks for all the work going in to polishing everything.

 

[Michael Morris]

Safari used to be weird - it mastered CSS 2.1 about version 2.02 but it kept screwing up tables until version 3 which made it quiet test to dev for alonside IE since tables were for a long time the only reliable cross browser markup for layout.

 

[Orius]

I too prefered the standard smilies, and I'd like to have a skin or whatever that uses the classic ENWorld look. I can't figure out how features that I hadn't given much though to work either, stuff like signatures only appearing once on a page, and all articles being automatically marked as read once /i log off or close the browser.

 

[Blue]

I'm liking it a lot!

The only thing I'm missing from the old ENWorld is the "latest forum posts" box on the front page. I rarely have time to check all the forums, and seeing a selection from all of them brought me to some threads I would otherwise have missed.

A very good job Michael, I'm liking it.

Cheers,
=Blue(23)

 

[Blue]

Double post, sorry.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I freaking love it. The front page looks awesome - I always hated the unending stream of text and links that it was before. The next, clean boxes are simply beautiful. The speed of the forums is amazing. I never thought I would see ENW like this again. Bravo to Michael - he done good.