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So we disagree.
Consistency is a good quality, however it is difficult to define. It looks like a container holding many things, including in random order:
1. keeping objects at the same place whatever happens;
2. specially marking inactive things;
3. hiding irrelevant parts.
And one cannot have all of the above all the time. Example: our forums are paged lists, they have navigation links top and bottom, however:
- when several pages exist, there always is a PREV and NEXT link, disabled (grayed) when not applicable (PREV on the first page, NEXT on the last one);
- when only one page exists, there are no PREV and NEXT links.
Is that consistent? it all depends on your view, maybe on the order of the characteristics listed earlier.
Would you prefer to always have PREV/NEXT links? I don't. I do not want to see distractors, especially not ones that are always passive (such as text as opposed to links).
When a PC has only one user without password, Windows doesn't show a login screen. Looks normal to me, I guess you would call that inconsistent.
When a directory is not empty, I expect to see the number of files and some size indication. When the directory is empty, it may say "zero files", it should not say "zero files (0 bytes)".
I do add code to achieve this in my apps, IMO the "consistent" way is more inspired by laziness than by good user experience.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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I think if the numbers match, a little tune should be played, and the user should be sent a free CodeProject t-shirt.
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I'll want a "mute" checkbox in my settings page then, the numbers might match more than I care to know.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Can you provide a new page link next to the news item clickable title, you know one of these [^] ?
Cheers,
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you said clickable?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Yes, the hyperlink news item title
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Why don't you just right click and "open in new window"?
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Why provide the new window facility in message links then? No difference.
It is a suggestion that would improve my site usage experience.......is that not the whole point of suggestions!
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Then they should add [^] to all links on the site then?
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I can kind of see what you're saying. Since news links are to external sites, it would make sense for Code Project to open them in a new window so that the user wouldn't navigate away from Code Project when clicking the links.
However, that little [^] seems more appropriate for user content than it does for Code Project links. I'd say they should leave the links as they are, have the news links open in a new window by default, or create a more professional icon than [^] and show that to the right of each link.
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At last........
aspdotnetdev wrote: I can kind of see what you're saying
and
aspdotnetdev wrote: or create a more professional icon than [^] and show that to the right of each link.
i like the sound of that 
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How is it now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, I mis-understood your request.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hello,
I just submitted my first code project article using e-mail address submit@codeproject.com with all the goodies bundled in a zip.
I have not received any auto-reply notification that the submission went through / is in process. Should I receive an auto notification when I submit an article to e-mail address submit@codeproject.com ?
Thank you,
John Kane 218976
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/John_M_Kane
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Hi John,
Apologies for the delay. Your submission is with one of our editors and I have asked for it to be prioritized.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Thank you ! Just want to wanted to make sure I did not make a mistake with the submission. Article was posted today and looks great with the codeproject formatting.
Thanks again,
John M Kane
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Sorry that it's taken me so long to find this [^]one.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Sorry that it took me so long to nuke the account.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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A suggestion and a possible bug.
I posted a tip/trick. I entered a list of tags and some of those tags had spaces in them (e.g., "Visual Studio"). Looks like it parsed that tag list with both commas and spaces as delimiters. So, "Visual Studio" got turned into "Visual, Studio". It seems I should probably use "Visual-Studio" for now, but I think that spaces should not be a delimiter. Either that, or you could change the way that tags are entered. For example, you could have a list of TextBoxes on top of each other that the user can type tags into (one tag per TextBox).
Also, one time when I viewed my question, it had these tags:
Tags: Visual-Studio, Visual, Studio, 2005, 2008, IDE
But another time it had only one tag:
Tags: Visual-Studio
And there were no edits to the TT that I could see. And that is assuming, of course, that I wasn't hallucinating.
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Let me talk this over with the team.
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While posting a tip/trick, I forgot to add some tags and tried to submit the TT. A message was displayed at the top of the page that said "Please revise your tag selection", which is fine. However, there was another box to the right of the screen with the same style as that top message (yellow background, blue border), but it had no text in it.
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Thanks. Will add it to the bug list!
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This is probably an IE 6 issue, but when I go to Quick Answers, either of View Unanswered or View All, the page shows up with the normal banner and ads and paging controls, but none of the questions are displayed at all. I only noticed this a couple of days ago, but it was displaying up until a week ago. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Hi Chris,
Can you check your filter settings, please?
Sincerely,
Elina
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Enjoy every moment of it! 
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