[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ web based boards ] >> And which useful tools do you require? >> > A choice of news readers to suit different people with different > interfaces, - different browsers, different stylesheets, different board styles (themes). > filtering, There is often a search function, which filters away everything that doesn't match. There are also things like word filters, etc. > kill files, <http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150586&highlight=ignore> > etc. etc. http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ > A forum provides a > single, usually rather limited, interface for the user with no way for > the user to change it radically. Does the user want this? And with a user stylesheet you can change it quite radically :-) And in return the user gets: colors, fonts, font sizes, embedding of images, flash, you name it. Moving avatars, even sounds. Oh, yes, I would love to see an XML interface on the board I use. Maybe I can just install a mod, or write one myself. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list