 | | A Nit about the "next article" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | If you are at the last article, perhaps you should suppress showing a URL for the next article. When 368 was last, pressing the 369 URL while viewing 368 gives a page that says: "Article 369 does not exist in group lugnet.admin.general." which is (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) I know, I know. :) I subscribe to the same philosophy, and the way it is now is not the way I think it ought to work either... (don't worry) Haven't fixed it up nice yet because it involves reading either the '.overview' file or the 'active' (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Playing around with this lead me to the following nifty discovery (which I should have known you'd do, since you understand the "principle of least surprise") I can manipulate the numbers as I wish! If I go up to the URL box and change (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Chris Barnes
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| | | | | | | | (...) Its almost as if Todd can read minds. scary... chris barnes ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Heh heh, that would take all the fun out of user interface design. :) Actually, my background is in UI stuff, and I most enjoy writing software that I actually end up getting to use, so I try to make things extra geeky sometimes (where it (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Chris Barnes
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| | | | | | | | (...) snip (...) As a developer of enduser apps for windows environments I appreciate seeing elegant designs. Too many times developers misuse the tools they have to create kludgy, hard to use interfaces. The web interface you have is such that I am (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Hrmmm. I would go look for that but I've had problems compiling things for the most part. I guess I've been too spoiled by dealing with the convenient rpm's I can use with Redhat. I wonder if it has been compiled and offered up in that format? (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Two NEW nits —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Nit 1: Can you give me both a forward range, and a backward range? when on 300-349, there's nothing to go backward a chunk. And make the chunk size match what chunk size you're showing, in both directions (except don't go below 1, of course, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Two NEW nits —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I was thinking of putting those at the top & bottom of the table-listing as "more..." for each direction, plus keeping the forward at the top...sound ok? (...) oops, this was an oversight. And to think I wrote code to make sure it displayed (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Two NEW nits —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Forward == the direction I am going based on the sense of the two numbers? If so, yes. (...) That was fast, thanks. (...) Well, they're *different*, but (and I hate to nitpick a nitpick (1)) not *meaningful*. A second sheet of paper doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Two NEW nits —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) It's supposed to suggest that you're writing a message "on top of" the other one -- i.e., following up the original with your new one. (...) Egad -- bite your tongue -- those NS4 icons are terrible! (I've had them turned off since installing (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Two NEW nits —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Another possibility along those lines is: For Post, a little page being inserted into the book with a down-arrow between the page and the book, and for Cancel, a little page being floated out of the book with an up-arrow between the page and (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Icons for posting (was Re: Two NEW nits —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I rather like them. A new message IS different than a reply. (...) Well I see you changed "Post" to "New" and changed the page offset in "Reply". Much clearer. Happy enough. Thanks. ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: A Nit about the "next article" —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Of course there are rare instances where it is better to allow something erroneous and then give an error than it is to disallow it altogether. For example, say you are the operator of a print server. The graphical display shows multiple job (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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