Brett L

Any clues on if IPS4 will be a mobile only design (as with the current skin) or a mobile first responsive design (adaptive from smaller screen with one column to multiple columns on a tablet and so on)?

Personally I disagree. I commonly keep my webbrowser window a smaller then normal size. I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am on a responsive site and it starts to give me the tablet layout. 

ps; I don't think the current IPS app is bad at all, better than the mobile theme anyway IMO.

Happy user is just meeting minimal expectations. A good product exceeds them. 

I may have to eat my words earlier on this "go native...". Hey, I rather be wrong and get great IPB product that works for mobile devices than the other way around  ;-)

There's a lot more to going native then you might think. It really becomes a project of reinventing the wheel as you are spending hours trying to render complex HTML in an environment that is not meant to render HTML. 

Many companies like facebook are able to recreate their experience well because the content is composed of short plain text blurbs in a controlled environment. 

Forums are the complete opposite. They are typically composed of long post. Many of which contain complex HTML layouts. In uncontrolled environments. 

If you look at almost every native forum application none of them are any good. (including the IPS one).

Source: I wrote the IPS one. 

Matt has this problem because Zend tends to insert with \r\n

SHHHHH you're ruining my joke. 

never used one   not like it's actually hard to ensure(*cough* .DS_Store *cough*).

Thumbs.db.

I like that the type of line endings used in our files results in a topic starting with "For the love of everything holy.".

 

Sometimes editors just don't behave.  All of us are set to use utf-8 with unix line endings, and we double checked following this topic.  Sometimes an editor just doesn't listen for some reason, however.  As we get into 4.0, we'll ensure this is outlined again in our coding standards document internally.

If everyone used macs this wouldn't be a problem. 

If you make a request using a useragent matching the mobile applications you will get an XML response. 

That said there is no saying how long IPS will keep the XML skin.