Free Republic Beta Update: New Mail Features & Font

[John Robinson]

Updated the beta site today. I've added the following new features to the mail system:

• Favorites folder-- you can mark messages as favorites. Favorites are saved into a folder that can be accessed through the "Favorites" tab on the mail interface.
• Search! You can search for messages from people, and you can search for text within messages sent to you.
• and a few miscellaneous changes.

I'm also experimenting with format changes on the index pages.

[HAL9000]

While you’re working on fonts, any chance the index page can get an option for a sans-serif font like Arial?

The behavior of site_search_extended mode is a little weird. The menu can have one setting, but if the text box already contains a title: or do: qualifier, it is not handled correctly. Also, the asterisk in the text input box gets in the way when entering a search query.

For what it’s worth, webkit.org has some excellent new HTML/JavaScript diagnostic tools for Windows and Mac. There is a new web page inspector with multiple viewing modes, a new error console, and a new JavaScript debugger app called Drosera which allows breakpoints, single-stepping and variable inspection. The WebKit browser is the open-source counterpart to Apple’s Safari web browser.

[444Flyer]

Thanks for the ping Brat.

John, thanks for all the work your putting in.:)(:

[TomGuy]

so people like TomGuy can revert back to it using a css extension on firefox?

You mis-read.

I do NOT use Firefox for FR.

I DO use an IE-based tabbed browser called Fastbrowser.

FYI

Your suggestion, however, may be of use to those who do use Firefox for FR browsing.

[Excellence]

Getting-old eyes love big fonts!

[sig226]

Thanks, John.

There seems to be a bug on the profile page. When I follow the account link to the profile and edit the profile page, return brings me to the editor page, not back to the forum. Sorry for the extra headache.

[jellybean]

Staring at the white background is like staring at a light bulb. It hurts.

Have you tried adjusting the brightness on your monitor?

[Quix]

Sans Serif like

COMIC SANS MS

in my case! LOL.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping
Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[nanetteclaret]

Thanks for all your hard work, John. FR is such a treasure!

Is there any way to set preferences to show only the title of the latest posts page - without the content? If posts include graphics, it takes forever to load for those of us still in the dinosaur age with dial-up.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

...it takes forever to load for those of us still in the dinosaur age with dial-up.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[papasmurf]

Hmmmph! I liked the old days when you had to send in a deck of punch cards with your comment and got back a half ream of fanfold paper showing what everyone else said.

Priceless! LOL

[blu]

Please, can we have the old time format back? I hate military time (nothing against the military, just hate converting)