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Haha. Load a quick bio. 
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Yes, it now covers important bits of the post. Time to do something serious, i suppose... 
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Shog9 wrote: i should really come up with some sort of positioning algorithm that keeps it near the user's post but more or less out of the way...
We could always use the jQuery Tooltip Plugin[^].
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Well, i suppose that's a possibility...
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How hard would it be to make CPhog show a line up to the post you are replying to?
{Original Post}
|_{Reply One : To Orignal Post}
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|_{Reply Two: To Original Post}
Sometimes it's just plain hard to tell who is replying to who in some of these enormous threads. Would would be really cool is if you could click a button and it would show the expansion tree if you need it. If you don't click the button you don't ever see it.
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I've been considering some changes to the forum HTML for a while now... if i go through with them, this would be an easy enough change to make. (I suspect it would be rather complex with the current forum layout though; there's not really any explicit connection between parents and children encoded in the HTML, so the script would have to do some interesting things with images in the margin, and given that indentation isn't quite linear that might be a bit fragile)
Just out of curiosity, what do you think of the printer-friendly script's output? Is that any easier to follow, or would marginal lines still help?
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Let's go several orders of magnitude easier (I hope). Have a button in each reply that when clicked simply highlights the post it's in reply to. Could be something as easy as changing the text color of the parent post on the click. I'm assuming you have some unique ID that links a parent to a child or something. Just change the parents color on click.
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code-frog wrote: I'm assuming you have some unique ID that links a parent to a child or something.
Nope. There's nothing like that in the forum HTML. We have to make a SWAG based on the previous sibling with a margin that's 5px less than the current. It's...not always accurate. 
This has always been one of the problems with threaded forums/newsgroups/BBSes...there's no easy way to tell who's replying to what.
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Well then you know what I say to that? PFFFFT!!!
It's not that big of a deal. Add it to the very low list of priorities that gets looked at out of sheer boredom and considered only during major rewrites where things are already going to be painful enough.
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code-frog wrote: It's not that big of a deal. Add it to the very low list of priorities that gets looked at out of sheer boredom and considered only during major rewrites where things are already going to be painful enough.
That's where I always shelve your suggestions, Rex.
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Just noticed the [+|-] next to the forum refresh link. Nice. 
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It's not hooked up to any of the pref stuff yet...so it won't persist between sessions...but I'm getting there. 
One of the things I'm doing with this forum watch stuff right now is actually factoring it out into a separate file. I'm kind of envisioning a cphog "plugin" architecture. (where I define architecture very loosely). You'll see what I mean when I check this stuff in.
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What's the difference? Between + and - I mean? Please explaion it clearly - I just had too much margarita to be at 100% intellectual; klevel
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Tooltips my good man. I assume do you want to get all emails like we do for CPhog's forum?
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi
Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Oh my God. Did Chris approve this? I have a few sites, neither SB nor Lounge, that I would love to mark.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi
Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Did Chris approve this?
 Much to Chris' chagrin, we don't ask before we implement features.
Mark away. Your changes will now persist across sessions. It should work on personal forums as well, but I haven't tested that.
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Can you add all the forum's that we're subscribed to to the bookmarks page? Also, what are all the personal forums?
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi
Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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- What bookmarks page?
 - Personal forums are the forums under each person's user profile.
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Our article bookmarks. How can we see as a whole what we've checked?
There are II kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who understand Roman numerals. Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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That'll be part of the settings editor we're planning on implementing Real Soon Now.
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Would be nice if you didn't see the watched forum in the forum in question.
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Yeah...I suppose that is kind of redundant. Fixed.
10901
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Aaaand...changes are persistent. You can now customize your watches to your heart's content.
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David,
What's the URL to get the latest beta?
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