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Shog9 wrote: You seem pretty hung up on that guy...
It was a nasty shock and it'll take me a few more days to recover from the scar.
Shog9 wrote: (If you were using Firefox, i'd recommend FlashBlock[^])
Thanks for the recommendation. I have been meaning to install that for a while now.
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When you click on a username, you get the preview on the left-hand side. How about you add our own info under the forum watch list and every time a username, you replace it with that person's info?
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I dunno. The mini-profile thing is kinda nice...but (1) it's a huge load on the server (according to Chris) and (2) it's not really sanctioned right now...so we haven't actively developed it. I don't like the idea of replacing content over in the left hand nav bar though.
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Personally, i hate the left side margin. I'd much prefer it was on the right. That said, if i ever got the energy to actually move it, i'd probably make it fixed as well (ad + forum watches + whatever).
But i don't care to move the mini-bio any further; personally, i liked it best in the post... but failing that, 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... the current position is just laziness.
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Shog9 wrote: I'd much prefer it was on the right.
You mean you want the entirety of the left hand bar over on the right? Wow. I'm trying to think about what that would look like...
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David Stone wrote: Wow. I'm trying to think about what that would look like...
It's easier to just swap the columns and look at the result. Here's a hint: it looks goood...
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Shog9 wrote: It's easier to just swap the columns and look at the result.
Yeah. But I'm really lazy. 
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Then, i suppose i'll have to show you...
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Yeah. That's really easy, isn't it? 
Eh...it'd take me a bit to get used to it...but I kinda like it.
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OK, knock it off you two
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Actually...I kinda like having the nav bar over there. It kinda works. It also totally eliminates the problems I've had with horizontal scrolling on Fx trunk. So I'm happy.
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Nice. It also means I can read first without having to look at the menus and ads. It's like the bicycle, why did the older ones have a big wheel and a little wheel, when having them the same size is much easier.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: t's like the bicycle, why did the older ones have a big wheel and a little wheel, when having them the same size is much easier.
Because they didn't have gears. 
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only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Yeah, but gears have been around for ages.
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Right, but not on those bikes. I don't know why they didn't use gears, but they had that big wheel because they didn't use gears. Maybe the system architect in charge of bike design mandated gearless technology.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you.
-Chris Maunder
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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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