Has DCistas been moved to the b.org server?
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
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Lyra Jane - Sep 16, 2004 5:59:14 pm PDT #8294 of 10000
Up with the sun
Gris - Sep 17, 2004 10:37:08 am PDT #8295 of 10000
Hey. New board.
I have a suggestion.
Would it be possible to set things up so that the threadsuck pages default to opening links in a new window?
Reasoning: I can't count the number of times that I've been catching up in a thread with a several-hundred post threadsuck, gotten halfway down and read about a Cool Website of Awesomeness (tm) with link included. I click, absentmindedly, read the CWoA, and then hit my back button, only to get greeted with the "This page relied on POSTDATA. Would you like to resubmit it?" I sigh, choose "Yes," wait a minute, hurt the b.org servers a bit for no obvious reason, and scroll down trying to find where I stopped reading. It's... annoying.
Now, I could simply middle-click the links and close the new tab when I'm done. I know this. And, usually, I'll do that the SECOND link I check out. But I still had to go through it once because I'm stupid.
But if links opened by default in a new window...
This may annoy more people than it helps. Just a thought.
brenda m - Sep 17, 2004 3:27:54 pm PDT #8296 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I've had that thought, too, Nova. I'd find it really helpful, but I don't know enough about coding to know if it'd be a pain to implement.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 17, 2004 3:40:19 pm PDT #8297 of 10000
What is even happening?
I wish all our links added the functionality that the target="_blank" coding does when you make an t a href tag. The Bronze Beta does this. All links open up a new page. If you include the target="_blank" coding in your t a href there though, your link doesn't link.
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2004 3:50:06 pm PDT #8298 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like the idea that the threadsuck has them, but I'm reluctant to do that for every link.
DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2004 4:05:33 pm PDT #8299 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I open a new tab (but not window) for links, so that functionality in general links would subtract functionality for me.
I have no opinion on the threadsuck issue.
Gris - Sep 17, 2004 4:20:25 pm PDT #8300 of 10000
Hey. New board.
If you middle-click a link designed to open in a new window, it will still open in a new tab rather than a new window. So if it was implemented, opening links in a new tab would work exactly the same.
Hil R. - Sep 17, 2004 4:36:49 pm PDT #8301 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I generally open links in the same window I'm in, because I prefer using the back button to having a bunch of windows and tabs floating around. When I want something in a different tab or different window, I open it that way, and I generally find it annoying when something automatically opens in another window.. Making it automatically in a different window would also subract functionality for me.
DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2004 4:38:22 pm PDT #8302 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
(I have no middle button. Just one button. I love my Mac.)
Hil R. - Sep 17, 2004 4:39:45 pm PDT #8303 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm using a laptop, and also have no middle button.