Board Optimization - Digital Point Better CSS

About
This is something we use on digitalpoint.com to make the CSS better and more efficient.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the upload folder to your installation
• Install the product-digitalpoint_css.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can see a live version in action here (on any page really): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

Details
Rounded Corners
vBulletin 4 only supports rounded corners for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. This plug-in makes rounded corners also work in Opera and Internet Explorer.

Gradients
It appends some CSS markup to your primary CSS file that makes use of CSS3 gradients (gradients defined right in the CSS file itself). vBulletin uses 5-7 gradient images per page view normally, and this eliminates the need for the browser to download those images. CSS3 gradients are supported in Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome. For browsers that don't support CSS3 gradients, they will simply fall back to the normal image-based CSS gradients that vBulletin uses by default.

Notes
This plug-in is useful for sites that use vBulletin 4 default styles, or at least styles that utilize the same classes and methods for doing things within the CSS files.

This plug-in does NOT add any extra CSS files, nor does it edit your existing ones. Instead it appends some new info to the end of your main CSS file that comes from it's own template. It also adds an attribution link.

You can find more info here: http://products.digitalpoint.com/vbulletin-css.php

Changes
1.0.2

• CSS3 Gradient support for IE10 (early, I know... but it's there)
• Handles gradients in vB Suite Blog and CMS
• Works properly for CSS stored as files

Uninstallation: Automatic uninstallation is a bit of a catch 22... you need to compile templates to uninstall it, but vBulletin has no function built in to compile a group of templates. So uninstalling it removes the code needed to uninstall before the uninstall code is executed. So in order to uninstall this, disable just the one plug-in that is part of this product at the template_compile location, and then run Compile CSS Templates option under AdminCP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters. Once you do that, you can uninstall the whole product without any problems.

[joggele]

Hello,

I'm using V4.1.4 with standard styles (only different colors create with the style manager).

I hoped, I get rounded corners with IE8. But there are always not rounded.

Some solutions for this?

regards
Juergen

[Fenriz]

Is there any advantage to install this mod on vb 4.1.5 ?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Fenriz

Is there any advantage to install this mod on vb 4.1.5 ?

Only the ones listed in the original post (there are no more or less advantages to using it with 4.1.5).

[Fenriz]

As I clearly understand, the mod allows 2 improvements:
1. Rounded Corners
2. Gradients

I just discovered that 4.1.5 has already Rounded Corners. Is it a good idea to install the mod on 4.1.5? Any incompatibilities?
So we'll get just Gradients, right?

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by Fenriz

As I clearly understand, the mod allows 2 improvements:
1. Rounded Corners
2. Gradients

I just discovered that 4.1.5 has already Rounded Corners. Is it a good idea to install the mod on 4.1.5? Any incompatibilities?
So we'll get just Gradients, right?

Rounded Corners
vBulletin 4 only supports rounded corners for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. This plug-in makes rounded corners also work in Opera and Internet Explorer.

So unless 4.1.5 make them work in IE and Opera, you'll still need this mod.

[MrD]

Hi shawn,
one Question: whats the Different to this Addon ?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&highlight=css

[digitalpoint]

This one doesn't use/need any images so you wouldn't even need the one sprite image.

[MrD]

Ok Thx

[MrD]

Hi Shawn,
i have a Problem with the Headerlogo.
My Logo are 2 Pieces and the 2. is not displayed after Addon install.
The Logo is defined as Header Beckground in the Stylevars.

[Mooff]

Originally Posted by MrD

Hi shawn,
one Question: whats the Different to this Addon ?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&highlight=css

The right question would be: "What do those addons have in common?"
Which would be the CSS in the name. Aside from that, not much.

This addon here changes the gradients to css3 gradients.

The other one merges >100 icons in one sprite (though does not support gradients right now).