Posted on 09/30/2001 2:59:33 AM PDT by John Robinson
Why not make the links different colors (or fonts)?
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I noticed that the blockquote wrapper seems to have fluttered on and off and on and now seems consistently off. Will this be its permanent condition?
... Misc. Requests:
It would be nice to be able to edit a post after it's sent. Failing that, it would be nice to be able to delete a post (one's own post, not posts of others).
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Larger message composition boxes. Hard to shoehorn stuff through a keyhole. (ex post facto mixed metaphor alert:))
Are you sure you want to post this? YES or NO.
Are you sure you didn't make any typos? YES or NO.
Are you sure? YES or NO.
Positive? YES or NO.
Did you post something inane that you would now like to change? YES or NO.
According to your user file, you have posted many other inane comments. Are you absolutely sure you would like to post this? YES or NO.
etc :-)
However, neither of those are as clean as the blockquote method. Blockquotes allowed long lines of text and wide images to fall outside the right margin without affecting the rest of the contained text. Both tables and margins (on a div tag) stretch the right margin to the widest element in the content. This requires horizontal scrolling if the right margin falls outside the width of the browser window. Horizontal scrolling sucks!
I remember running into similar issues when trying to prettify some ebay listings (using Frontpage), and IIRC the solution was to set the left column to a fixed width, and the right column to a percentage of the remaining width. In the FR context there wouldn't need to be the left column (I just note it because it drove me crazy trying to balance the two, prevent the left one (which had the photo) from resizing, and prevent the right column from getting a horiz scrollbar, which as you pointed out, sucks.)
I need some help, I'm trying to find an article regarding "bump lists". This particular article listed a great number of bump lists currently being used on Free Republic. I can't remember the title, poster, or even when I last saw it. Anybody happen to have any of this handy?Askel- you have a good collection of bump lists. Have any ideas where I could find this list? Thanks.
How many letters will we be able to fit on the "TO" line? (I was going to type "How many characters ... " but I know I'd get some pretty interesting replies.)
Speaking of which, consider this post introducing the Free Republic "bump list" register. Nothing in it as of this posting, haven't found any lists!
As for the buttons on the reply page, can you use onLoad JS to disable the function of the button until the page is entirely loaded?
I wrote some games and puzzle pages years ago that I had to seriously debug so I know where ya are. Between trying to stick to HTML, JS, CSS, and DOM standards, while trying to handle the idiosyncracies of IE and NS, I had to dig deep into the specs. It was fun :-)
btw, if you don't already have it, I recommend Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference from O'Reilly ... great reference book.
calpowergate - articles related to the ethical conflict inherent in California politicans and energy regulators having financial interests in the companies they regulate. A sub-category of calpowercrisis list.
Say, I tried the <SPAN CLASS="hi"> a little while ago, and it didn't seem to work. Do I need to create a style sheet first? I am using NutScrape 4.08.
Right now there is no default style sheet. I still need to write one. If you wish, you can define a "hi" class in your style sheet for highlighting.
I will have a default style sheet within a few days I'm pretty sure.
Then OTOH, we do have a large "high" class here on FR.
Man...I need more coffee!
I could use JavaScript, however, I want to use JavaScript only as an enhancement, not a requirement. This problem is a borderline case. The new forum has a better way of handling the posting form anyway, so I probably won't spend too much time on this old stuff.
Footnote: most of the recent changes are either to facilitate conversion from the old forum to the new forum, or as technology tests. New forum should be ready for a public beta test late Oct or Nov.
Perhaps it would do making "if the clutter's worth it" a toggle switch issue so folk could tailor some features to their preferences?
THANKS FOR YOUR LABORS!
Now my question.... will the self-search be refined so that I will be able to retrieve only MY replies and flags and not those of everyone named "chaIRMAn"?
I love the chaIRMAn, but he's an awfully popular guy in the mornings when he posts his "America the Right Way" threads making my self-search function practically useless.
Thanks!
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