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Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
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Date: 
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:05:03 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > > David Schilling <davidNO@SPAMsunteleia.com> wrote:
> > > > To summarize, though, I don't think it would be too big a deal if there
> > > > were false matches.  The benefit of having this feature would more than
> > > > make up for the minor inconvenience other times.
> > > 
> > > But Todd has put so much effort into making LugNET do things The Right Way
> > > it seems a shame to mar it with such an unelegant solution.
> > 
> > I was thinkin' thumbnails along the bottom or side wouldn't get in the way
> > too much, maybe, if there were false positives...
> 
> Down the side would work, especially as this is a web interface thing - I
> don't know about other people, but I've got a lot of screen real estate doing
> nothing in messages...
> 
> My major concern with that would be loading times.  The S@H specials, for
> example, would often be 10 or more thumbnails...

I don't like the idea of thumbnail *pictures* automatically showing up
beside messages.  Purely iconic links would be OK.

I do like the idea of a syntax that will get automagically
expanded from something like LS#6077 to a hyperlink to the
lugnet/pause picture of that set.

--

jthompson@esker.com      "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"



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  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) I'd be happy with LS#\d+ as the standard way to write the set numbers. Unlike URLs, there's not any confusion over whether a . is part of the URL or not, etc. Todd, you mentioned that lego set numbers are actually strings. Do they contain (...) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) Down the side would work, especially as this is a web interface thing - I don't know about other people, but I've got a lot of screen real estate doing nothing in messages... My major concern with that would be loading times. The S@H specials, (...) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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