[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by 1Unreal

vB is the best forum software by far. However why are they using tables as layout objects? Thats really old stuff. Also, <font> for example is a depreciated tag. Why is this being used?

Because when you support half a billion unique users on over 100,000 websites around the world and support browsers from the Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 5 era, you can't just change these things. Yes, those are the design requirements for the vBulletin 3.X series. Stability and support are more important than creating a new design every year. However, you won't see these things as much in vBulletin 4.0 which will have a new design.

Drupal on the other hand prides itself on the fact that they do not provide backwards compatibility or stability between versions. This means that the code you developed in Drupal 5 will not work in Drupal 6 and will not work in Drupal 7. Their version scheme is a little different from ours. Generation wise, vBulletin 3.5 was the fourth generation of the software and could have easily been called vBulletin 4. 3.6 was the fifth generation of the software. vBulletin 3.7 and 3.8 comprise the sixth generation of the software. The vBulletin 4 series will be the 7th generation.