Are there any huge interface redesigns? Or are we sticking to the "old school" HTML tables - no flexbox, no AJAX? I'm not sure how much of this is actually embedded in the version, that's why I'm asking.
What you see on this website right now, is what will be in the release version. UBBCentral.com is running the most current preview version. Check the build date in the footer.
• Flexbox specifications have changed a lot over the years. And its not completely compatible with all major browser released within the past decade. I believe that whats currently being used for version 7.6.0 (not flexbox) is working out just fine for displaying on mobile sized screens.
• Because AJAX makes multiple HTTP requests, it is a major hit on the server-side if you are dealing with large databases, which many of the current UBB.threads installs are. Its also bad for SEO. Users cannot bookmark AJAX pages. But, if you are asking for items such as lightbox, chatboxes or captcha, then yeah, UBB.threads 7.6.0 adds a few extras, but most of that is already part of version 7.5.x, and is just being carried forward, with updated/optimized code.
By "old-school," do you mean like HTML 4.01 from 1999, or like xHTML from 2000? Which are still heavily used today.
As of August 2016, HTML is used by 71.2% of websites.
As of August 2016, xHTML is used by 29.4% of websites.
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/markup_language/allOr do you just mean "transition from TABLE to DIV/SPAN for tabular layouts" -- its being worked on it. Its a huge upgrade job, but one thats happening as quickly as a few persons can make it happen. Though, the first step in that conversion is to get all of the inline styles out of the html pages and scripts, and put that in to the css/styles. Doing that has been a major job, especially since there are over 900 files which are being reworked to make that happen. At the same time, pages are being made mobile friendly. That in itself was a major job.
UBB.threads 7.6.0 will mostly be using current standards as its being transitioned to HTML5 and CSS3, while still trying to be backwards compatible with browsers released within the last decade. Basically IE11 will be the oldest browser version supported. And since Chrome and Firefox are not bundled with any OS and are regularly updated, those browsers have consistently been keeping up with current web language specs.
