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It's not that different: it's all about correct ratings for information. The rating of both depend on votes: code downloads are analogous to answer views. Logically, if you count a download as a "good vote" for an article, then viewing an answer should count as a "good vote" for that.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Not so - you view an article, if it is convincing then you download the code. Q&A, however, you view and may or may not like what you see. With views it is impossible to tell whether the user likes what they read but with Downloads, it suggests that the user liked what they read enough to download the code. Clearly then they are not equivalent examples.
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There is a lot of merit in what you say, but it's too simplistic.
Luc will be along shortly to tell you and me why we're both wrong.
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I agree that any implementation I have suggested is too simplistic - sort of why I suggested it, for CP people to work out the real solution - but the concept is more what I was suggesting.
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Luc's on his way, he will get this sorted.
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SA's following on behind to point to his post and explain why it's the correct solution.
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There are lots of factors that can be used to measure the popularity and I would argue that bookmarking an article is just as, if not more valuable than a download. I could also add a timer to measure how long an article was read, or whether the entire article was read via scroll tracking, but in the end the popularity value was designed to simply be a way to differentiate two similar ratings with different numbers of votes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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They are probably using a server-side link in a masterpage. Server-side stuff likes to butcher relative links (so "?display=Mobile" becomes "http://www.codeproject.com/Masterpages/?display=Mobile").
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Should also be noted that after going into Mobile site, after clicking on link it reverts to the normal site again, not the idea I would have thought 
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Ex-spam. Thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This question. I edited that question to put some of the text into an HTML table. It looked fine in the preview, but after I posted it the HTML got completely messed up. I think it had something to do with the fact that I put a THEAD without a TBODY. The HTML did a bunch of weird stuff. For one, it seems each TR was wrapped with a TBODY and some were wrapped with TABLE tags. And at the end of one of the table were a bunch of unnecessary closing tags. I got so frustrated that I abandoned the whole TBODY/THEAD concept and just went with a plain table and B tags to add emphasis to the column headers. I can see modifying the output HTML, but modifying the input HTML (so that I have to fix it on a subsequent update) and making it look different than it was in the preview makes me 
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Also, table captions could use some styling. Right now, it's hard to even tell they are the caption for the table. More info on this can be found here.
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Can you please send me the HTML you were trying to use? I'll dig in and see what the problem is.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It was something like:
<table border="1"><thead><tr><td>blah</td><td>blah</td><td>blah</td></tr></thead>
<tr><td>blah</td><td>blah</td><td>blah</td></tr>
<tr><td>blah</td><td>blah</td><td>blah</td></tr>
<tr><td>blah</td><td>blah</td><td>blah</td></tr></table>
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Create a WPF Outlook Bar without any Procedural Code got four 1-votes, one 2-vote, and one 3-vote, yet has no "my vote of" messages for the range 1-3. Before, this issue seemed to only occur some of the time, but it seems that with this article is has happened with every single downvote.
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The system that forced a comment to be added when voting is only reasonably recent. This article is older than the introduction of that system.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Oops, I read the day and month, but I evidently missed the year. And also apparently thought that June is the same thing as July. 
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I do that all the time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Please delete this account. I have an active account outside of this one that I'm using. I want to associate this email address with my other account and I can't because it's tied to this one.
Thanks
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Why don't you just change the email on this one? That way it'll be freed up for the other id.
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I will do that, but I still want to delete the account since I'm not using it.
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A summary of the month's best articles would be really useful.
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I just reported an article which looks like it violates rule 2 of the guidelines. Unfortunately there is no "Advertising" category so I had to use "Spam/Abusive", which seems a bit harsh.
The best things in life are not things.
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