Could your firewall be as simplistic as blocking a link that has "ad" in the link text?
Yeah, an ad blocker might just do that.
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DXMachina - Oct 11, 2005 12:41:10 pm PDT #642 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2005 12:43:08 pm PDT #643 of 4671
What is even happening?
Could your firewall be as simplistic as blocking a link that has "ad" in the link text?
1. a link
2. an ad
Nope.
What about a direct link to an image?I'm assuming that was all you put in your post, Dana? If you also included a link, I'm not seeing it.
I have gone directly to images plenty of times before, though.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2005 12:45:01 pm PDT #644 of 4671
What is even happening?
![[link]](http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/ipodnanohand20050907.jpg){kind=link}
Above this I have posted the full url for images.apple.com/home/2005/images/ipodnanohand20050907.jpg
eta...
I can see it.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2005 1:03:47 pm PDT #645 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unrelated to Cindy's errant firewall -- there's some design that needs be done.
The request has been made for breadcrumbs to assist with folder navigation. I also think that presenting a folder list at the top of the thread screen (folders at the same level as the thread) will cut down on back and forth.
What thinkest you? And, Jon, how would you present this?
JenP - Oct 11, 2005 6:42:20 pm PDT #646 of 4671
I think this is kind of over now, but for what it's worth, I had the same problem Cindy had with ita's post and could then see all the links you posted in here to test theories. I use IE6.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 12, 2005 2:06:09 am PDT #647 of 4671
What is even happening?
See? I'm not the only inmate in the asylum.
Jon B. - Oct 13, 2005 8:17:00 am PDT #648 of 4671
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Could your firewall be as simplistic as blocking a link that has "ad" in the link text?
Could be when "ad" is in the url of the link.
The request has been made for breadcrumbs to assist with folder navigation. I also think that presenting a folder list at the top of the thread screen (folders at the same level as the thread) will cut down on back and forth.
I don't quite understand the request.
(sorry for the delay. I was out of town for a bit)
§ ita § - Oct 13, 2005 8:28:51 am PDT #649 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
1. Breadcrumbs -- so when you're in a given folder, you have a link somewhere (top and bottom), I'm guessing to the parent folder, not just the root, as we have now.
2. Access to folders at the same level as the thread you're reading, from inside the thread -- so you don't have to come back to the list of threads to select a given folder.
I think #1 is important, and #2 might not be workable or worth it. Just wondering on the formatting for both.
Also -- for the triangles indicating the folders right now on the front page -- I don't think a) that triangles are accurate in this context, and 2. that listing them vertically scales well.
Jon B. - Oct 13, 2005 8:34:34 am PDT #650 of 4671
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Breadcrumbs
So none of this matters if you're using Message Center, correct?
a) that triangles are accurate in this context
I have seen triangles elsewhere used this exact same way. I know that doesn't make it right, but I still feel that it's the best graphic for the situation. I didn't think any of the other suggestions were any better.
2. that listing them vertically scales well.
Not sure what you mean. They look right to me.
§ ita § - Oct 13, 2005 8:37:51 am PDT #651 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So none of this matters if you're using Message Center, correct?
If you use it solely as the means to navigate from thread to thread, no. But when you're in a thread, you're a variable number of clicks from its parent folder, and that's not good.
I didn't think any of the other suggestions were any better.
Even the folders? The purist in me cries out for bullets in just about any other shape. Those folders are begging to be clicked on to expand.
They look right to me.
They do now. But they push the thread list down -- and when one scales up to, say, fifteen folders, I think we're wasting real estate.