The design of the UI for the forum is largely complete. It's possible to navigate the forum pages like you should be able to on the finished version, i.e. there shouldn't be any dead links. It works this way, because it links to a mock up database that contains information on how to display forum lists, threads, messages, etc.

This has also made me write a new version of the HTML dialect with a few more capabilities and better code. I hope to release as that soon as the documentation for it is updated.

I'm still going to keep the URL to myself for now, until a bit more of the work has been done, so we can get the specs done for the database. The specs is a collaborative effort of the REBOL/Forum group, while the UI has been done by me. The document for the specifications will be opened when it's ready.

I was also approached with the suggestion to add better search engine friendly URLs, but this capability depends on whether Cheyenne can rewrite URLs. I don't yet know whether it can do that.

An interesting side effect of this stage of development is that the only thing keeping the forum running is the very small mock database (i.e. a few small block of objects and strings), which means the UI and the back end database are well separated.

As a total, I've spent around 12 hours on this effort.

We'll see where this goes! Have a good day.

Right here and now somewhere in Cyberspace (or rather in an AltME world) a new web forum is being born. There's been a lot of debate on how to build one and why we want to build one and why the heck we aren't just using phpBB or some such, like everyone else. Well, it wouldn't be much of a REBOLlion if we were, would it? Read More...