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Re: Suggestion for improvement
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:21:02 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Brian H. Nielsen writes:
> On the Traffic Page you color code the numbers to indicate recent
> posts. This would be a great feature to implement in the dots of the
> message tree display.
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> Something along the lines of different color dot for messages of ages
> less than 1 day old, 2 days old, 3 days old, 7 days old, and older than
> 7 days. This would be useful when deciding where in the tree to go to
> find new messages since the last visit.
I wanted to do that, but although you can temporarily override the LINK and
VLINK color inline with <FONT COLOR=...>, you can't temporarily override
them separately inline. (At least not to the best of my knowledge; maybe
there's some CSS extension for that.)
So the boxes would no longer tell you whether you've visited an article.
On the other hand, if the little tiny 3x3-pixel dot image itself at the
centers of the larger box were presented in multiple colors and the link
border colorings were left alone, then you could see which articles you've
already visited, and you could also see how old/new an article was. Then
the issues would be (a) whether the colors for article age worked against
whatever LINK and VLINK colors people happen to have set in their browser
configuration, and (b) whether it's worth the extra bandwidth and httpd
log bloat to serve multiple different image 3x3-pixel files.
--Todd
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| (...) Rather than color coded, perhaps shape encoded (squares, circles, triangles, etc...) would be easier to implement. You still have issue (b), but bandwidth for a few small images is minimal. I don't follow the log bloat issue, but assume it is (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| On the Traffic Page you color code the numbers to indicate recent posts. This would be a great feature to implement in the dots of the message tree display. Something along the lines of different color dot for messages of ages less than 1 day old, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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