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(...) Exactly, a one-step clickie path. I couldn't have said it better. :) It's not much of a time savings, but it seems a waste to load up the entire article just to click back to the root node articlet. I know that I do it several times per day, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ^^^^^^^^ Wow, my first 3-character-gap dyslexic character swap! :-) I meant to say: "...but that was before the indented thread view..." --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The original prototype for the new (May, 1999) interface did have a similar sort of feature via another symbol... Whereas the regular article is clicked up using a white and blue dot, this was a white and blue series of parallel lines... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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This is intended for you Todd, but I'm posting to see if other feel the same. Don't you hate it when you come to Lugnet and see a summary like "Re: This is the greatest day ever! (was: Free bricks for everyone!)" but you have no idea what the thread (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Almost. The big difference is that when you click on a folder in the Links toolbar it pops up a submenu with all the links in it. If you click on a folder in a regular taskbar toolbar it opens an explorer window with its contents. Rob (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 04:27:44 GMT Rob Farver <rfarver@rcn.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Lugnet for beginners': (...) isn't that like saving a link on the desktop, or on the taskbar launcher? Dan (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I dunno, the fact that you put those two posts together is probably acutally a good thing! --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ahhh...there's my goof. I was mentally mixing Brad's two posts in intent and execution. It must be the medication talking again. Must...shake...flu... (...) That was more my thought, I just made an association in my own loopy head (and, of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya sure, certainly it is! -- as long as the discussion stays on-topic to the group(s). But I was answering the question more literally -- as asked. That is, if someone wanted to talk about "web site design" then there's really only one group (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In other words, back when the Spotlight pages were begun, it was very easy to justify trying that out, because it literally was zero programming to implement it -- it's just one particular application of the plaintext markup format I was (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If the Spotlight data were in an easy-to-munge format, it would be pretty straightforward, ya, but it actually grew up out of a plaintext format. Here's an example of today's page in its raw form that I edit in a browser window edit box: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Same functionality. Only you can also put the links bar in your taskbar (It's the Links selection under toolbars). You can also put your address bar in the taskbar. With these options, you can go to your bookmarks even if your browser isn't (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I see. It's a lot like RDF then. Neat-o. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) www.perl.com recently had an article on it: (URL) RSS is an XML file served by http which contains channel information; the RSS client (e.g. slashdot.org, my.netscape.com, my.yahoo.com, etc.) slurps it and spews out HTML on the end-user's (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wherefinds one documents on what is RSS? --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Like with channels and RSS and stuff? (please say yes please say yes) Any chance that the Spotlight will be exposed in RSS format? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Excellent! I didn't know Internet Exploiter had that. Here's one thing I've been experimenting with in Netscrape Navigator... (2 URLs) close to that level of flexibility does MSIE come? --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One URL: (URL) and per-user preferences on how to display that page -- kinda like a "My LUGNET" kind of thing. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I don't have a bookmark - I have a link at the top of my page, in the 'links' feature that IE has. Very useful... -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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