Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.
edit: I did it in some thread or another.
Man, just ascend already.
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DXMachina - Jan 03, 2003 4:23:17 pm PST #2603 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 4:30:45 pm PST #2604 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Yeah, but another basic principle of usability is "overly-long lines of text are hard to read." Can we just force those lines to be shorter somehow?
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 5:13:49 pm PST #2605 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You muste be using a very wide window, Michele, because (as John H. pointed out) the Music slug isn't the only one that wraps on my screen.
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 5:22:17 pm PST #2606 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I do, in fact, have a humongous screen, Jon. I'm more worried about the lines running very far from the thread title and seeming to merge with the right-hand sidebar. Is this not an issue for you?
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 03, 2003 5:26:14 pm PST #2607 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Maybe from a half to a third of the slugs wrap around on my 800 x 600 monitor; but there's a gap about... half the size of my first finger... clearly delineating the center bit from the right-hand table.
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 6:47:01 pm PST #2608 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is this not an issue for you?
It's not. I see a clearly defined gap, like RL says.
John H - Jan 03, 2003 8:06:00 pm PST #2609 of 10000
The idea of force-wrapping text to suit isn't a good one, but I'd be happy with the principle of indenting the slugs, it's a much better solution if they're going to get long.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 03, 2003 9:19:01 pm PST #2610 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
... Would there be some possible way, some day, of being able to mark some posts as unread? You know, like you read them, but you ask it to and it forgets that you read them, so they're later presented as new. I'd really like that, but tell me if it's just silly.
Noumenon - Jan 03, 2003 10:21:50 pm PST #2611 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I'm sometimes afraid to click to links in threads I subscribe to for fear of screwing up Read New.
I didn't even remember there was a thread-division discussion on WX. Now my hash tastes like rehash.
Jon B. - Jan 04, 2003 1:37:29 am PST #2612 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
... Would there be some possible way, some day, of being able to mark some posts as unread? You know, like you read them, but you ask it to and it forgets that you read them, so they're later presented as new. I'd really like that, but tell me if it's just silly.
Posts can only be marked unread from post #x to the end of the thread. The idea of being able to "reset" how far you've read a particular thread was broght up at some point and is definitely doable. As long as you don't mean unmarking non-consecutive posts, or a block of posts in the middle of a thread, because that's insane troll logic.