I get confused when I pop back to the top of the page and have to figure out where I left off.
That's always bugged me too. There's a fairly simple solution -- using name tags before every post -- but it would require new coding.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
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Jon B. - Apr 28, 2004 6:32:35 am PDT #7368 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2004 6:38:40 am PDT #7369 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The way Rob originally coded it, it brought the blocked or unblocked post to be the first on the page.
I nagged him into consistency.
Oops.
amych - Apr 28, 2004 6:39:48 am PDT #7370 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's always bugged me too.
Me three (or four, or ... n). Is it on The List?
But then on the other hand, it seems like it's a board-wide thing rather than a filter-specific issue. As for the filter, I haven't run into a single problem testing it in terms of adding and removing people, displaying inblisible messages, figuring out how to work the thing. It's lovely.
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2004 6:48:05 am PDT #7371 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Oops.
Not at all. Rob had the un/blocked post appear first on the page. That was wrong. I'm talking about using a name tag so that the un/blocked or bookmarked post appears at the top of your browser window, but still at the same spot in the page. In other words, the page appears just as you left it, with the same set of posts appearing as before (but bookmarked or blocked as requested).
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2004 6:53:09 am PDT #7372 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh.
Putting anchor tags shouldn't be too hard -- making t a href='showthread.php?thread_id=32&post_id=7369' into t a href='showthread.php?thread_id=32&post_id=7369' name='7369'
Is that what you're suggesting? And then the link you're returned to from block or mark is [link]
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2004 7:24:38 am PDT #7373 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is that what you're suggesting?
Exactly. I know it's not hard, but I wasn't sure we wanted to be making more changes right away. Feel free to go for it!
Laura - Apr 28, 2004 7:29:56 am PDT #7374 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
weeps with love for those that jump right on my picky complaint
As far as the rest of the blocking, unblocking, etc, all is lovely. It also confirms my suspicion that I won't be able to use the function because I temporarily look at all the messages. I can't resist the taunting blocked folk.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2004 7:30:27 am PDT #7375 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll wait until Rob makes the changes to the blocking code, and then I'll tweak the marking code (or he can while he's in there).
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2004 7:33:20 am PDT #7376 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm sure I could code it too, but I haven't actually looked at Rob's work yet and anyway it would probably be too many cooks for our non-CVS world.
Rob - Apr 28, 2004 8:14:12 am PDT #7377 of 10000
I'm not going to have time this week to do that as big a change as adding the anchors, so Jon should feel free to take the ball and run with it.