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Hey, what's the fun in life if you can't perpetuate a few myths? 
They way this site does it, it pops up the tool tip on any lounge link. I'm assuming that these tool tips are cached when the page is loaded, as there's no "load time" - they pop up instantly.
It probably sounds trivial, but given the page load time on any busy site it really is a significant performance enhancement for the user. For instance, if a post has 50 replies, you can mouse over and then just read the 5 that have something to say instead of doing 50 page loads.
Since I'm not a web guru, I don't know what would be involved, so I don't know the benefit to pain and suffering ratio to implement. Just occurred to me today as I was on the other site & thought I'd pass it on.
Oh, and sorry for posting in the wrong place, didn't realize this stuff belonged here...
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You've seen the Preview View, right? Something like that, but with tooltips?
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Christopher Duncan wrote: One of the forums I frequent has a tool tip style box pop up when you hover over any thread post
It must be vBulletin - I've seen a few sites using that, and they had this preview tooltip. Pretty neat feature.
Regards,
Nish
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You need to change your name to Quick Draw McGraw. 
But like I told David elsewhere, the menus and tooltips appear under advertisements. Also, it would be nice if the tootip width was half the width of FireFox or the desktop.
"Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki
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I suspect there's nothing i can do (easily) to make the tooltips appear on top of flash ads. This is supposed to be fixed in a future version of Gecko, but there have been performance problems holding it back. I'll look into it though.
The tips aren't supposed to be any wider than the forum bit of the page though, so i'm not sure how you're getting them into the ads unless you have your window fairly narrow (and not scrolled).
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Aside from the Google Sidebar on the right, I have a fairly decent screen size, but the tooltip was appearing under the image. However, with the new stylesheet that Chris just added, that problem appears to be gone. However, the tooltip size appears to start prematurely (a few pixels to the left of the thread), but ends exactly at the end of the thread width. You may want to look into that instead. Good job.
"Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn
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Currently we can bookmark only articles.
Is there possible to bookmark forum posts.
or just enable Bookmarks for FORUMS also...
This might be more useful to watch certain posts/message in a forum..
Urs,
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Not at the moment but it will be added.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: but it will be added.
That would be very cool! 
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Cool! I was just looking for this feature too.
By the way, if you enhance your features for posts, what about a section "My Posts" or "My threads" like the section "My Articles"?
Could you install this feature too? ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) or ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) (take what you like  )
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I think similar thing is used by msn groups, and it takes so much time to load and interact, I hate that.
btw, what is so much between ajax and you? did you invent it?
-Prakash
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Why on earth would you need AJAX for this? There's this new "Javascript" thing that seems promising. Anyone feel like having a go?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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That'd be an extreme overuse of Ajax - and would probably result in a slow and unresponsive page.
Regards,
Nish
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It would be nice if the bookmarks were in tabular form so that we can sort by date added, updated or name. Also, it would be nice if you can add a different colored new icon for when it was bookmarked. I use CP at work and at home, and I like to check up on stuff when I'm at either location and this would make things easier to find.
"Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn
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I think it would be really handy to see the number of replies and/or the number of *new* replies on the Latest Comments page.
Currently it shows the date, subject, forum, score. If it showed the replies you could see which of your posts have new replies without having to read your notification emails and read/click each email.
And speaking of notifications, it would also be nice to be able to watch a topic and receive notifications of *any* posts to particular topic (regardless of who they replied to). But given the extra load on the mail server I wouldn't be suprised if this isn't a feasable feature.
"Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office) ~ ScrollingGrid: A cross-browser 2-way-scrolling freeze-header control for the ASP.NET DataGrid
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There should, nay... must be an Office Development Discussion Board at CP. Please comply. 
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Hakuna-Matada
It means no worries for the rest of your days...
It's our problem free, Philosophy
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Hakuna-Matada wrote: What's wrong? Watched Football the whole night?
Nope. Just what you said in another post...
Hakuna-Matada wrote: there are a very few who are into Office Development
I think it would be a real snoozer of a board.
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I think the forums hosted by the microsoft has good discussion board on microsoft office developemtn.
i guess it is msnews.microsoft.com, you need to use outlook for this.
-Prakash
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Hakuna-Matada wrote: must be an Office Development Discussion Board at CP. Please comply.
You won't win many friends here at CP with that kind of attitude.
Whilst the new Office development tools introduced with VS2005 are nice, Office development really hasn't taken off yet. Certainly not enough to justify a new forum. For now, the General discussion or one of the language forums will be the best place to ask questions.
Michael
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