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Luc Pattyn wrote: So all was fine from the start?
Nope, my beef has been with the personal forum the entire time, and nothing about that has changed. I want to be able to make stickies with replies. Or, if I can't have that, then get rid of the reply button for stickies.
Luc Pattyn wrote: I still would prefer separate checkboxes for sticky and accepts-replies.
That would be ideal.
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I have seen the finer details of your beef now.
Offering features (e.g. a reply widget) that end with "I can't do that" does not make sense to me.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Seems there are different implementations for different forums.
No just different implementations for different people.
If Chris (aka 'the master of the hamsters') posts a sticky, the hamsters naturally assume that there can be no improvement or comment on the message and so there is no need for a reply button.
But when we (the flawed people (in the eye's of the hamsters) post one there is room for improvement and comments so there is a reply button.
The whole 'you can not post a reply to a sticky message' thingy is just the hamsters way of having fun at our expense. They just enjoy seeing us clicking the 'post message' button franticly and getting frustrated.
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You see the Reply button because you are an admin on that forum. To make Luc happy I should make the reply button visible, but disabled, with a tooltip explaining why, for everyone.
To make you both happy I should add the ability to have Sticky Threads. I'm sure the peanut gallery can make their own comments on that. Then, to round it off, I should have the ability to close threads so no one can reply, giving me the ability to create pinned messages at the tops of forums that don't cause irritation for general users.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: To make you both happy I should add the ability to have Sticky Threads.
Assuming "thread" implies replies to the original message, then that about sums it up.
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Chris Maunder wrote: The reason we do not allow replies to stickies is because not doing so would mean every time you loaded the page you would have to wade through the same thread each time.
What's wrong with that? Why not make it user-configurable so each user can decide if they want to allow replies to their sticky threads?
Personally, if one of my two sticky threads got too long, I'd just make it unsticky and create a new sticky thread to replace it (and perhaps link to the old thread from the new one).
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Why can't you allow replies for stickies without showing them and add a link to view replies?
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IE 6.0 is old and should be upgraded to either FireFox or IE 8 or 9. I had problems with IE 6.0 and they went away (mostly) when I started using the latest version of FF.
[Edit]
Any current version of most browsers should alleviate most problems with this site.
HTH
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IE6 may be displaying a dialog that a script is running slow, but it still runs slow on other browsers. Go to latest articles and give it a try. Pegs my CPU for 5-10 seconds (IE8).
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I'm flying in this site and have no prob with the articles opening and blistering fast speeds. FF 4.0 
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Sorry but, just like Microsoft, CodeProject too does not support IE6 anymore.
I would suggest you to upgrade to latest versions of IE for your own good. IE6 has lots of issues (including security holes!)
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The IE6 javascript engine is about a zillion times slower than any other browser available. That it chugs on stuff that everything else finishes almost immediately is to be expected.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Just to clarify that this isn't just an IE6 problem...
When I go to latest articles, one of my processors jumps to 100% for 5 to 10 seconds. This seems to happen every time I go to the page. Seems a bit excessive for such a simple page.
It may be related to the fact that there is nearly 7,000 lines of HTML when I view the source of the page. That also seems excessive.
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That page isn't exactly a Javascript powerhouse. There's some extraneous viewstate (that I'm currently ridding the world of) but not a ton of javascript.
Do you have any add-ins installed that might be playing silly buggers?
[Edit] I can replicate on IE6-8, but not IE9, which leads me to think it's definitely javascript. Still hunting.]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified on Thursday, April 7, 2011 11:02 PM
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When I viewed the HTML source of the recent articles page, I noticed "SkinCancer" was part of the HTML. That's kinda weird.
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Someone tagged an article with that term.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Looks like the "Tags" box opens up a pretty complex UI element (that's where the "SkinCancer" came from... probably some of that is user generated content). Perhaps there's some JavaScript in there that's slowing things down.
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And this started, in my case on IE6, about 3 days a go. Any ideas?
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We moved from jQuery 1.4.2 to jQuery 1.5.1.
I'm going to rollback and see if that helps.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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And IE7.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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How is it now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yes, I is like last week.
Excellent! It was driving me crazy.
Can you stay at this rev?
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Would it be possible to provide the ability for certain trusted members to move questions to more appropriate forums? It gets a bit silly when you have to point somebody to the right forum because
a) you've just replied to the message, preventing it from being deleted
and
b) if you're telling somebody, you might as well perform the action
I know that you've given certain members site admin privileges in the past - the user base needs expanding (and you could easily limit the functionality to just moving the message - along with triggering an email to the user telling them that their question was moved).
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alternatively (probably simpler to implement and less confusing to the OP), one could introduce the concept of a weak reply: with a checkbox (or a new message type) you could turn your reply into a weak one, one that doesn't prevent the parent message being deleted by its author. Additionally, the presence of such weak reply might prevent other replies from being added (indefinitely, or for some time span, giving the OP the opportunity to remove it all).
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code. modified on Thursday, April 7, 2011 10:26 AM
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