[Ids-devel] IDS 0.7a5

[John M. <mo...@mu...>]

Hello.

Here's what I've been working on:
http://arwen.hn.org/~john/ids-0.7/

New features so far:
*    added support for internationalization (i18n! hehe)
*    produces XHTML 1.0 compliant code
          http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
*    added support for GUI themes
*    incorporated Anthony's comment filtering patch- great idea!

So far, we have i18n support for Deutsch, US English, and Nederlands. If you
or someone you know would like to contribute a language plug-in, please let
me know. You can see examples at
http://arwen.hn.org/~john/ids-0.7/localizations/ . Does anyone know if the
US English file would suffice for UK English? I don't see anything obvious
like "colour." :)

The same goes for themes- http://arwen.hn.org/~john/ids-0.7/themes/ . If you
don't want to worry about XHTML compliance, that's OK. I can easily convert
files with HTML Tidy.

One subtle change- album icons are now PNG's. I chose to do this because PNG
offers transparency. The background color/image can change in themes, so I
didn't want the corners of album images to always be white. Some older
browsers can't display PNG's and some modern browsers don't display
transparency, but I'd rather that it look good for some users instead of
looking bad for everyone. We can probably use the updater script to update
old JPEG album icons to PNG.

If anyone is planning to submit patches, the coming weeks would be a good
time. I'm going to focus on making more themes, so the code should stay
pretty stable.

http://arwen.hn.org/~john/ids-0.7a5.tar.gz

John