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Re: Longest thread candidate? (Was: What happened?)
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:46:07 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > Hey, Todd, view this message in the Web interface and check out those
> > little blue squares at the bottom.  I'm assuming that one could count
> > those blue squares and come up with the number of unique messages in
> > this thread, regardless of ng, right?
> Well, you don't actually have to count them; it says how many there are
> right above them.  :-)

'Scuse me while I bang my head against my monitor...

> (I should probably be chopping automatic thread display
> and putting it on a separate page once the thread grows above a certain
> size.  Really large threads, even with the HTML whitespace compactification
> tricks being used, are rat's-nests for older browsers or browsers running on
> low memory.)

That sounds good.  Sometimes that tree display can take a while to load
(sometimes).

BTW, I just noticed that LUGNET messages aren't very pretty then viewed with
Lynx in an 80-column window.  It's mainly just a lot of premature line-wrap
in the message text.  I suspect that there's not much to be done in this
case; the messages are posted at something close to 80 columns anyway, and
with what little padding happens at the left and right edges, premature
line-wrap may be unavoidable.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives



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(...) Well, you don't actually have to count them; it says how many there are right above them. :-) (...) The graph is displayed on-the-fly from parent/child node data. This way, the full thread is always correctly shown for older messages up the (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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