[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

hmm, I was afraid of this:

* html .post img {width:400px;}

This code limits posted images to 400px… but it also stretches small images to 400px.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks, was not aware that the * html hack was an IE6 trigger! It works much better!

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

THANK you, r-a-y – this works fine. It’s still a bit of kilter, but at least it’s at the top and I can deal with the rest later.

I can understand why IE6 would not be supported. Unfortunately, lots of people out there still use IE6, many not by choice. This was actually brought to my attention by one of my users, who only has access to IE6 at her organization.

A couple other hacks that may help people dealing with IE6 issues…

To keep large post images from collapsing the sidebar

.post img {

max-width:400px;

width: expression(this.width > 400 ? 400: true); /*IE6 hack*/

}

To keep the sidebar from collapsing altogether (ie, when the user narrows the browser window: get rid of the max-width and min-width properties of body {}. Set a fixed width.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

This is a good question. Here is my take on it.

bb forums are enclosed, stand-alone, old-school discussion boards that are traditionally organized according to “freshness” (ie, who commented last), which is supposed to tell you what threads are most active.

The activity stream is where it gets confusing. It is supposed to capture activity chronologically, regardless of where it happens in the group. So in the activity stream you will see forum posts, forum replies, group wire posts, and status notifications like “so-and-so just joined this group.” It gets blurry because you can also comment on activity stream items… so it’s not just a stream of activity, but another method for interacting.

In my limited experience, it is a little confusing to have both the activity stream and forum running at the same time. It’s especially confusing because by default, you can have a forum discussions ongoing, and have a parallel but completely separate discussion on the SAME posts in the activity stream. This can be disabled in the BuddyPress settings, but in my opinion, this should be off by default.