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Small issue with the new look -Dy9-Jul-06 23:07 -Dy 9-Jul-06 23:07  Hey, Just a small note to let you know that the home page is too wide. I've seen Chris has posted a message saying the new width support is 1024 - which is what I'm running at, but the home page is always too wide and needs scrolling. Should it matter: I'm running on XP pro (SP2), Firefox 1.5.0.4 Just a side note too, but the new layout isn't as easy to use as the old one, the 'my settings' / 'bookmarks' stuff that is now in the top right was easier to find at the top left, and the new menu running down the left has lost some key areas. It's nice it's been reduced, well, kinda, but I think it's been reduced too much. For example, 'STL' and 'projects' are missing, and I was always clicking on them! I understand that you need to support the most popular stuff, and you can't make everyone happy (and you have the most anal and hard to please audience in the world!) but I thought I'd provide my feedback for what it's worth all the same... - Dy Re: Small issue with the new look Bassam Abdul-Baki10-Jul-06 2:44 Bassam Abdul-Baki 10-Jul-06 2:44  If you notice, there appears to be two Lounge links at the top of the page causing the scrollbar to appear. That is a known issue that is being worked on. "Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn Re: Small issue with the new look Chris Keeble10-Jul-06 21:38 Chris Keeble 10-Jul-06 21:38  It happens on the home page, even though there is only one lounge link. Enhancement [modified] Christopher Duncan7-Jul-06 4:24 Christopher Duncan 7-Jul-06 4:24  I seem to recall Chris talking about enhancements a while back, so just in case there's actually some new goodies being planned, here's an idea for the pile. Don't know if it's been suggested before or not since there's no "official wish list" of which I'm aware. One of the forums I frequent has a tool tip style box pop up when you hover over any thread post, showing you the first couple of sentances. It's much faster than actually hitting the link, letting the page load, etc. and is a handy way to quickly spin through the forum and see what might be of interest and worth a more in depth read. Of course, given my recent comment about Chris pushing 40, this suggestion may well be met with a flamethrower and a couple of marshmellows. I suppose that just depends on how his posterior feels after all that bike bouncing in France... Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes -- move by ed. at 10:26 Friday 7th July, 2006 Re: Enhancement Chris Maunder7-Jul-06 4:31 Chris Maunder 7-Jul-06 4:31  I'm just wondering how this would work with the current system. I could have something that pops up a preview box as soon as you pass the mouse over any message link, thus saving an agonising mouse click. Or are you thinking that it would be more useful on the homepage summary of lounge links? And in the interest of not perpetuating such a fallacious and outlandish myth as to my impending age I choose not to bite. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP Re: Enhancement Christopher Duncan7-Jul-06 4:51 Christopher Duncan 7-Jul-06 4:51  Hey, what's the fun in life if you can't perpetuate a few myths? They way this site does it, it pops up the tool tip on any lounge link. I'm assuming that these tool tips are cached when the page is loaded, as there's no "load time" - they pop up instantly. It probably sounds trivial, but given the page load time on any busy site it really is a significant performance enhancement for the user. For instance, if a post has 50 replies, you can mouse over and then just read the 5 that have something to say instead of doing 50 page loads. Since I'm not a web guru, I don't know what would be involved, so I don't know the benefit to pain and suffering ratio to implement. Just occurred to me today as I was on the other site & thought I'd pass it on. Oh, and sorry for posting in the wrong place, didn't realize this stuff belonged here... Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Re: Enhancement Shog97-Jul-06 4:46 Shog9 7-Jul-06 4:46  You've seen the Preview View, right? Something like that, but with tooltips? ---- Scripts i’ve known... CPhog 1.0.0.0 - make CP better. Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve Print forum 0.1.2 - printer-friendly forums Expand all 1.0 - Expand all messages In-place Delete 1.0 - AJAX-style post delete Syntax 0.1 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks in the forums Re: Enhancement Christopher Duncan7-Jul-06 4:53 Christopher Duncan 7-Jul-06 4:53  Yes, exactly. Same benefit without the performance hit. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Re: Enhancement Nish Nishant7-Jul-06 9:28 Nish Nishant 7-Jul-06 9:28  Christopher Duncan wrote: One of the forums I frequent has a tool tip style box pop up when you hover over any thread post It must be vBulletin - I've seen a few sites using that, and they had this preview tooltip. Pretty neat feature. Regards, Nish Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog) Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) Re: Enhancement Shog97-Jul-06 14:33 Shog9 7-Jul-06 14:33  Ok. Load up Firefox and Greasemonkey and install this script: http://www.shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts/MsgPreview.user.js [^] Then refresh a forum (in Message View - pointless, i know, but this is a UI proof of concept). Let me know if that's what you are thinking of. ---- Scripts i’ve known... CPhog 1.0.0.0 - make CP better. Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve Print forum 0.1.2 - printer-friendly forums Expand all 1.0 - Expand all messages In-place Delete 1.0 - AJAX-style post delete Syntax 0.1 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks in the forums Re: Enhancement Bassam Abdul-Baki9-Jul-06 5:11 Bassam Abdul-Baki 9-Jul-06 5:11  You need to change your name to Quick Draw McGraw. But like I told David elsewhere, the menus and tooltips appear under advertisements. Also, it would be nice if the tootip width was half the width of FireFox or the desktop. "Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn Re: Enhancement Shog99-Jul-06 8:09 Shog9 9-Jul-06 8:09  I suspect there's nothing i can do (easily) to make the tooltips appear on top of flash ads. This is supposed to be fixed in a future version of Gecko, but there have been performance problems holding it back. I'll look into it though. The tips aren't supposed to be any wider than the forum bit of the page though, so i'm not sure how you're getting them into the ads unless you have your window fairly narrow (and not scrolled). ---- Scripts i’ve known... CPhog 1.0.0.0 - make CP better. Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve Print forum 0.1.2 - printer-friendly forums Expand all 1.0 - Expand all messages In-place Delete 1.0 - AJAX-style post delete Syntax 0.1 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks in the forums Re: Enhancement Bassam Abdul-Baki9-Jul-06 12:20 Bassam Abdul-Baki 9-Jul-06 12:20  Aside from the Google Sidebar on the right, I have a fairly decent screen size, but the tooltip was appearing under the image. However, with the new stylesheet that Chris just added, that problem appears to be gone. However, the tooltip size appears to start prematurely (a few pixels to the left of the thread), but ends exactly at the end of the thread width. You may want to look into that instead. Good job. "Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn Bookmarks for Forums posts traapons6-Jul-06 18:37 traapons 6-Jul-06 18:37  Currently we can bookmark only articles. Is there possible to bookmark forum posts. or just enable Bookmarks for FORUMS also... This might be more useful to watch certain posts/message in a forum.. Urs, -Pons ----------------------- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Re: Bookmarks for Forums posts Chris Maunder7-Jul-06 4:31 Chris Maunder 7-Jul-06 4:31  Not at the moment but it will be added. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP Re: Bookmarks for Forums posts S Douglas8-Jul-06 21:34 S Douglas 8-Jul-06 21:34  Chris Maunder wrote: but it will be added. That would be very cool! I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley: Re: Bookmarks for Forums posts olaf-n-line15-Aug-06 7:16 olaf-n-line 15-Aug-06 7:16  Cool! I was just looking for this feature too. By the way, if you enhance your features for posts, what about a section "My Posts" or "My threads" like the section "My Articles"? Could you install this feature too? or (take what you like ) Bringing Smileys on typing the characters via AJAX Vasudevan Deepak Kumar5-Jul-06 19:18 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 5-Jul-06 19:18  Hi, Just thought instead of depending on a separate preview window, the text editor itself can be made to display the smileys. Furthermore, (C) can be made to show copyright symbol, --> can be replaced an arrow icon using AJAX trick. This will the forum editor more WYSIWYG type, minimising the number of buttons and clicks required for the regular users. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak Personal Weblog The World of Deepak and Lavanya Views and Reviews Re: Bringing Smileys on typing the characters via AJAX Prakash Nadar5-Jul-06 21:10 Prakash Nadar 5-Jul-06 21:10  I think similar thing is used by msn groups, and it takes so much time to load and interact, I hate that. btw, what is so much between ajax and you? did you invent it? -Prakash Re: Bringing Smileys on typing the characters via AJAX Vasudevan Deepak Kumar12-Jul-06 5:23 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 12-Jul-06 5:23  A judicious use of the textarea and images alongside a good Internet pipeline renders MSN Groups too with a requisite amount of speed. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak Personal Weblog The World of Deepak and Lavanya Views and Reviews Re: Bringing Smileys on typing the characters via AJAX Chris Maunder6-Jul-06 2:11 Chris Maunder 6-Jul-06 2:11  Why on earth would you need AJAX for this? There's this new "Javascript" thing that seems promising. Anyone feel like having a go? cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP Re: Bringing Smileys on typing the characters via AJAX Nish Nishant6-Jul-06 2:23 Nish Nishant 6-Jul-06 2:23  That'd be an extreme overuse of Ajax - and would probably result in a slow and unresponsive page. Regards, Nish Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog) Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) Bookmarks Bassam Abdul-Baki5-Jul-06 2:21 Bassam Abdul-Baki 5-Jul-06 2:21  It would be nice if the bookmarks were in tabular form so that we can sort by date added, updated or name. Also, it would be nice if you can add a different colored new icon for when it was bookmarked. I use CP at work and at home, and I like to check up on stuff when I'm at either location and this would make things easier to find. "Religion is assurance in numbers." - Bassam Abdul-Baki Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn Latest Comments page Ashley van Gerven3-Jul-06 11:08 Ashley van Gerven 3-Jul-06 11:08  I think it would be really handy to see the number of replies and/or the number of *new* replies on the Latest Comments page. Currently it shows the date, subject, forum, score. If it showed the replies you could see which of your posts have new replies without having to read your notification emails and read/click each email. And speaking of notifications, it would also be nice to be able to watch a topic and receive notifications of *any* posts to particular topic (regardless of who they replied to). But given the extra load on the mail server I wouldn't be suprised if this isn't a feasable feature. "Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office) ~ ScrollingGrid: A cross-browser 2-way-scrolling freeze-header control for the ASP.NET DataGrid Office Development Discussion Board HakunaMatada28-Jun-06 21:01 HakunaMatada 28-Jun-06 21:01  There should, nay... must be an Office Development Discussion Board at CP. Please comply. --- Hakuna-Matada It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy

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