Hi everyone,
I was going to wait till Monday before start releasing the new update 3.6.8 skins, but i have received tons of emails asking me to allow customers to download the new skins, so I have decided to start releasing them as they are ready to go


Before I start, i wanted to let you know that the new W3.org Markup Validation Service will no longer validate the default vBulletin 3.6.8 template due to the new mandatory xmlns="" on the root element.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

I'm not sure why Jelsoft "forgot" or "decided not" to update the markup to comply with the new validator and pass as valid XHTML 1.0 transitional, that is beyond me, what I did with our skins is to include the new new mandatory xmlns="" and made the skins 100% valid XHTML 1.0 transitional :Smoking:

The new markup change is very simple

Code:
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
will turn into:

Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]" xml:lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

All of the new 3.6.8 skins includes the new Navigation buttons for Jelsoft Project Tools.

The projects tools buttons are commented out in the source code (header template) between the <!-- and --> tags so that you can easily enabled it if you need to.

The skin ready for vBulletin 3.6.8 are: Element, Aria and TechTwo

For a list of the required template changes please refer to vBulletin.com post here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...84&postcount=2


Please note that due to the changes explained above for the new markup i had to change almost 40 more templates that i cannot list here.

I recommend everyone updating to vbulletin 3.6.8 to upgrade the skins to the latest versions since they include several bug fixes and many xhtml improvements from previous versions


I will post more info and more skins as i convert them, hope you enjoy the improvements

Members can download the updates in the Members Area and New Customers can purchase the new 3.6.8 versions from our shop.