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Subject: Link to most recent post
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 10:53
When looking through emails I had received from the_abbott (who recently passed away from ALS), I noticed one in which he suggested that the "Last Post" column could have a link which automatically scrolls the browser to the most recent post. At the time, I back-burnered the idea (it was last spring, during baseball drafting - when the auto-scroll feature probably would have been quite useful). But upon reflection this morning, I realized that implementation was almost trivial. So, in the_abbott's memory, I implemented it this morning.
The link will only operate for posts created after the time of the change. All other links will continue to work as before. You simply have another option now. |
| 1 | Mike D
Sustainer
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Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 10:54
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Wow, VERY helpful on big threads......
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| 2 | Ender
Donor
ID: 013443221
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 11:43
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Appears to be working so far :)
I like it, and I think it's a nice tip of the cap to Simon.
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| 3 | biliruben
ID: 441182916
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 13:17
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I'm in the_abbot habit, and I ain't going back!
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| 4 | Ref
Donor
ID: 539581218
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 13:22
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Thanks Guru. Will really help for those L-O-N-G draft discussion threads.
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| 5 | Matt S
ID: 159442415
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 16:54
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Yay, what a great idea!
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| 6 | Ender
ID: 0442215
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 23:54
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This doesn't matter to me in the least, but I thought I would point it out just the same.
When you click the new fangled link and return, it is marked as previously read (purple instead of blue if you use the default colors like I do), but the actual thread link is not.
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| 7 | Sludge
ID: 1582971
Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 23:58
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Ender -
That is not anything that Guru did, nor do I suspect it's anything he can do about. The two links are, in fact, different as far as your browser is concerned.
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| 8 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Oct 26, 2004, 00:38
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Your browser determines the color of a visited link. When you go to the last post on a thread, the URL is slightly different than the URL for the thread in general, so your browser does not recognize it as the same.
In other words, I cannot synchronize those link colors.
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| 9 | Guru
ID: 46962416
Tue, Oct 26, 2004, 07:42
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In addition, it looks like the IE browser doesn't distinguish between differing "last post" links to the same thread. In other words, after you use a "last post" link to a given thread, that link will continue to appear as a visited link, even when the last post changes.
Again, I don't think that's anything I can compensate for.
It does appear to work as desired with the Netscape browser. I haven't checked it with FireFox, or any of the other browser alternatives.
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| 10 | Ender
Donor
ID: 013443221
Tue, Oct 26, 2004, 11:12
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I figured as much. I assumed that they were in effect seperate links. I just didn't know if Guru used IE and was aware that it was even that way. Thanks for the explanations.
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| 11 | Motley Crue
Leader
ID: 439372011
Mon, Nov 01, 2004, 13:41
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Guru,
Low priority request for something I kind of thought of on a whim. Please ignore it if you find it to be unworthy of programming time.
I frequent the football forum and lately I find we are talking about Ben Roethlisberger a lot. I thought it would be fun to have a button similar to the "Mientkiewicz Mangler" in the Baseball Forum, so that Big Ben's surname (or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof) could be easily pasted into any post.
Thanks, G.
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