How come splitting the difference = 3?
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John H - Nov 11, 2002 7:06:15 pm PST #1407 of 10000
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 7:07:39 pm PST #1408 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
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Sorta.
And five seems long to my hyperself, but 3 is a number I can deal with with less fidgeting.
Rob - Nov 11, 2002 7:09:44 pm PST #1409 of 10000
Would taking all the whitespace out of the generated HTML help at all? To me, it seems like it might.
When I took the source for the message center page and measured it in BBEdit, it came out to 13,194 bytes. When I ran it through BBEdit's HTML optimizer, it came out at 10,563 bytes, a savings of 17%.
Michele T. - Nov 11, 2002 7:18:25 pm PST #1410 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
OK, I have to ask -- what do people not like with "read new"?
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 7:19:57 pm PST #1411 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
It's like an automatic car. It gives me the creeps, gut level. This has been the case with any BBS I've used with a form of RN.
I have control issues.
Hil R. - Nov 11, 2002 7:20:24 pm PST #1412 of 10000
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I don't like the randomness of it. I like to be able to see where I have new messages and then decide which ones I want to read first.
John H - Nov 11, 2002 7:24:02 pm PST #1413 of 10000
Yeah me too. I want to be able to look at all the different threads and see which ones have been active, and how active. I never used "Read New" in the old days on WX either.
I would have to say though, that the Message Centre does add another stage. Are there any new messages? Yes there are. Which shall I read first? Click! Whereas RN just takes you somewhere and you start reading straight away.
Rob's suggestion of optimisation gets the thumbs up from me, too. 17% is a lot.
Burrell - Nov 11, 2002 7:24:06 pm PST #1414 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Okay then what if the auto-refresh was set at 5 min, & those with itchy trigger fingers & Read New issues could just manually refresh the page?
John H - Nov 11, 2002 7:26:13 pm PST #1415 of 10000
5 min
If you mean "set at five minutes", I disagree, but if you mean "set at five minimum" then I agree. If people want to set it longer then of course they should be able to.
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 7:27:27 pm PST #1416 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
Okay then what if the auto-refresh was set at 5 min, & those with itchy trigger fingers & Read New issues could just manually refresh the page?
My logic, such as it is, for the three minute thing, is that mentally, I could deal with a three minute refresh. I might, once or twice, hit f5. Set to five minutes, which seems ages long for some reason, I'd hit f5 about once or twice a minute.
It's a mental issue, like thinks that are 99 cents seeming cheaper by much than things a penny more.