John - I sent you an email to the address you wrote me from recently (not the profile addy). I have to get to bed, but if you could look it over, I'd greatly appreciate it.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jon B. - Nov 03, 2002 11:01:03 pm PST #1170 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
John H - Nov 03, 2002 11:22:03 pm PST #1171 of 10000
Sorry, Jon, had to go on an inspection tour of the New Building at work, plus I'm desperately confused about where I might have written to you from. It's probably gone to the home address?
Write to me using webmail@johnhorner.net and that should bounce to both work and home.
beth b - Nov 04, 2002 12:05:19 am PST #1172 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Request:
After being Grey for a week ... I would love to be able to tell the board I like to go to post 2050 , then 2100 etc. like in People's forum. This would let me really skip and skim effeciently. now -- i read 2000 posts... I can't help it...
P.M. Marc - Nov 04, 2002 12:07:47 am PST #1173 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Add &post_id=#### where #### is the post you want to go to in the topic. It's not the most elegant solution, but it will work in the short term.
Jon B. - Nov 04, 2002 4:57:23 am PST #1174 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Resent, John.
Jon B. - Nov 04, 2002 4:59:11 am PST #1175 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I would love to be able to tell the board I like to go to post 2050, then 2100 etc. like in People's forum.
It's not too difficult to code, but I'm concerned about screen clutter.
§ ita § - Nov 04, 2002 7:48:11 am PST #1176 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You don't even have to add &post_id. Dollars to donuts it will already be there. You just change the current ID to the number of the post you want to see.
John H - Nov 04, 2002 5:04:45 pm PST #1177 of 10000
You don't even have to add &post_id. Dollars to donuts it will already be there. You just change the current ID to the number of the post you want to see.
Wrod. That's the basis of the John H Natter Diet. It's especially easy because the post number is the last thing in the URL (when reading a thread).
The hard part about the JHND is that I'm often sitting here counting on my fingers and screwing up my face and scratching my head because subtracting 50 from 1115 is not easy for me. I just can't do arithmetic.
I'm secretly hoping that my Diet wil become a board feature, one day. My implementation would be a discreen little field added to the "Read New | Message center | First | Previous | Next | Last | Recent" section, which would say "most recent [FIELD] posts" or similar.
John H - Nov 04, 2002 5:06:59 pm PST #1178 of 10000
Jon B, I've written to you about that "check tag length" thing, but the short answer is, it doesn't need to be a form element at all, so something like:
document.write('<br><a href="#" onclick="check_length()"><img src="images/btn_checktag.gif" width="178" height="25" alt="check tagline length" border="0"></a>');
should do just fine.
Theodosia - Nov 04, 2002 8:18:03 pm PST #1179 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
(John, when you've got an odd number like 1115, just go back to the next-to-last major milestone -- so 1050. )