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Have you used netflix? I think something like that would be pretty sweet.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you.
-Chris Maunder
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Although we have comments at the bottom of each article; wouldn't be nice if we could annotate the text of the article itself. For example, I ran across a word in one of the recently published and edited articles where the author chose the word "pure" rather than "poor". Since we all read these articles, why not have a way to highlight a element and make a comment about it. Similar to the comment bubles in Word.
The Theory:
Once a users posts an annotation only the author of the article and the poster can see the comment. If the author likes the annotation he can choose to "accept" it. Otherwise the Author can edit the article to correct the annotation, or remove it.
Lastly, if an article has been through a few revision, the author may not wish to have the article "annotate"-able. So have a system to disable the feature.
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Not a bad idea. You could have something like an underline/highlight of certain words/sentences, then when you move your mouse over them, a message balloon appears with the comments.
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I've thought about this a lot and am wondering how the actual mechanism.
I guess in Javascript we can get the character position of a selected peice of text, then we could store an annotation as position + Annotation text, then insert the annotations into the actual article text (as pop-up balloons) when the article is displayed.
Hmmmmmm.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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but this doesn't work in firefox
in ie it working 
it is good to be important but it is more important to be good
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This is similar to concept art, we can not just steal their source code! But, for the record, good catch.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
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That is a poor implementation, they don't take into account that the mouse position in IE is relative to the screen, not the document.
Brad
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By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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This all sounds interesting, but hairy - would you allow annotations of annotations? Maybe a better approach is to let the author mark the article as wiki-able - i.e., allowing others to contribute to it.
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Not sure how it is actually accomplished, but most wiki's have a similar type of ability. I think the only thing currently missing is to be able to see who made the changes "in-line", you have to go to the history (or changes, edits, etc.) page to see that type of information.
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I think that CP should offer more support for open source development. I know there is the hidden Java forum, but that is about it.
I think it would be very useful to have a PHP forum. PHP is a widely accepted language and a great multi-platform language.
I know that this site is mostly .NET orientated, but there are still a number of PHP developers.
I think that it wold also benefit the hits for CP. PHP coders would be more inclined to use the site because they know the community is supportive of them.
Anyway, I think a PHP forum would be greatly beneficial on many levels.
Brad
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Bradml wrote: I think that CP should offer more support for open source development. I know there is the hidden Java forum, but that is about it.
Is it implicit that Java is open source ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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Well since the Javac became open source the language pretty much is.
Brad
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OK. I get where you're coming from now.
But, people writing Java code don't need to make it open source, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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No, just as PHP coders don't always show their source.
I'm saying languages maintained by the community.
Brad
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The site is Microsoft-centric. In fact that's one of its biggest selling points - the fact that it's specialized towards Microsoft-technologies, and thus attracts articles on those specific topics. It also results in a membership base that almost exclusively works on Windows and .NET technologies. Bringing Php, Java, Mainframe COBOL, etc. would dilute the content and deviate from the core target audience. I don't see any reason why the management of the website or its membership base would want that to happen.
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Your statements carry some truth, but I don't think you would find .Neters leaving because of a PHP/Whatever forum. If anything we might bring over a few coders that will be able to contribute some general purpose articles that we otherwise would not have gotten.
In addition I think that it would be beneficial to anyone who wanted to learn a couple extra languages.
In short I don't think we would lose anyone, only gain a few new members.
Brad
Australian
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: it's specialized towards Microsoft-technologies
Let's keep it that way
Some people have a memory and an attention span, you should try them out one day. - Jeremy Falcon
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Nish,
I agree with everything you said, but at the same time I would like to learn about other technologies, such as PHP. Doing a quick search for PHP showed that there were already several articles about PHP here on CP, and so I think that sometime in the future (maybe not now) the number of PHP articles would merit its own section.
I thought it was interesting that your post said "Windows and .NET technologies", rather than (for example) "Windows and C# technologies". Why is Nish linking Windows with a framework, when the OP was talking about a language? I wondered. One of the reasons I keep coming back to CP is that (so far at least) it is not exclusionary. I can read articles about .Net, and then read an article about ATL or MFC. In fact, it would be reasonable to rename the "C++ Libraries" section to "Frameworks", with ATL, WTL, MFC, and .Net as subsections, since all of them have one thing in common: a Win32 base.
Best wishes,
Hans
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I think it is a VERY bad idea of moving all web stuff to ASP.NET/AJAX area. For example, HTML and CSS have nothing (or little) to do with it.
I understand your idea of joining all web things into one, but old name of the section (Web/Scripting) seems much more correct.
Best regards,
Dmitry.
-- modified at 9:17 Saturday 25th November, 2006
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I think it should be all moved into the Web Development forum.
Brad
Australian
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If you select ASP/ASP.NET in the Most Popular Articles section there are probably 10-20 articles that are duplicated.
E.g.:
1. asp.net popup control
2. asp.net popup control
(both link to the same article)
This is happening for various articles on all five pages. So you probably only get to see the top 80 asp.net articles, not the top 100.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza ~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.
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Thanks Ashley. I'll add it to the TODO.
-- modified at 18:46 Monday 27th November, 2006
Should be fixed now
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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In my opinion, VB.NET forum is more compatible with C# one...
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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cpallini wrote: VB.NET forum is more compatible with C# one.
i second that
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