Cod DeeEmm, LOL nowt wrong wi a bit of fish, good for ya.....
I hope whatever comes of the profile customization that its kept simple to use for user. not everybody knows how to lay down HTML, or put in #234765 colour codes to change colours, which ive seen not long ago on one site. They boasted that any member could create their own customised profile, Yeah sure, if you know CSS and so on, needless to say, everybody still had the default profile because Most people dont know how to do that, they see more just want simple options to click on the whole. i think people who programme for a living, it seems so easy for them, that they forget that not everybody can do just the simple things like mentioned above, so i hope its kept user friendly for most part.
This is not profile customization per se - it is just a mod to add a html datatype.
This is what it does...
If you include a text box in the profile it will only allow you to type text into it - if you add html - it converts it so that it displays as text - it basically 'sanitizes' it.
So with this mod - instead of choosing a text box - you can choose a html box. This checks which html elements are being inputted against a list of allowable elements and removes the ones that you don't with see more to be used.
It is simply a mod to provide better functionality - how you implement it is down to you.
Regarding profile customisation - to provide an easy interface to be able to change the profile - each element needs to be controlled via code - this can be very limiting as the elements that can be changed are pre-defined as are the values they can be changed to.
CSS offers the greatest flexibility - give each user access to their own css file - which is unique - they can modify it from a text field in their profile - this way the user can control the position / colour / appearance of the content but cannot actually change the content itself - this also makes mods like the one I mentioned before for block reordering simpler to implement.
This can be further evolved to utilise 'css tags' (imagine BB tags but for CSS) - anybody should be able to understand a simplified version.
I hope whatever comes of the profile customization that its kept simple to use for user. not everybody knows how to lay down HTML, or put in #234765 colour codes to change colours, which ive seen not long ago on one site. They boasted that any member could create their own customised profile, Yeah sure, if you know CSS and so on, needless to say, everybody still had the default profile because Most people dont know how to do that, they see more
This is what it does...
If you include a text box in the profile it will only allow you to type text into it - if you add html - it converts it so that it displays as text - it basically 'sanitizes' it.
So with this mod - instead of choosing a text box - you can choose a html box. This checks which html elements are being inputted against a list of allowable elements and removes the ones that you don't with see more