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Re: Next and Prev buttons or links
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > While one can always, when walking through posts via the web interface,
> > mouse up to the location box and increment/decrement the posting number by
> > one, has there been any consideration to putting a next and prev button or
> > link in a convenient and unmovable place (in the title bar)??
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> Yes and no...probably not precisely the semantics that you're describing
> (could you go into more detail?) but yes in terms of the general idea of
> forward/backward buttons.
I don't want anything fancy in terms of determining what thread I'm in...
basically, if the current location (in the location box) is:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5774
pressing the next button should result in the current location becoming:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5775
and pressing the prev button should result in the current location becoming:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5773
without regard to whether this append really is part of a thread that is in a
different group too... I just want to go through the posts in strict numerical
order.
> It would be fairly straightforward to put next & prev links (or buttons) near
> the top which incremented or decremented the article number for a group,
> taking you to the previous or next message. (I think the old pre-May-1999
> web interface even had this.)
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> On the other hand, there's a lot of ambiguity in what "forward" or
> "backwards" means in a single-article context. If it was said always to mean
> "proceed to the next or previous article in the group that you're viewing,
> assuming that you didn't hop there from the middle of a thread or some other
> random starting point," you're saying that would that be helpful?
yes.
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> > This would allow one to read the postings to a group in strict numerical
> > order (till we get a tree walking view that works like a newsreader tree
> > view, this is the next best thing to allow ensuring that one sees everything
> > in a group, find a starting point, and walk forward.
> >
> > I know that this would work only for single groups.
> >
> > Something already considered?
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> Before I can answer that, I need a clear understanding of the precise
> semantic behavior you desire it to have. For example, how does what you
> want differ from what's already available if you do, say, this...:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5772,1&v=a
> or
> http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5772,-1&v=a
This is way different. I am not sure what the semantics of this actually is,
but since it displays more than one post when I find the MORE at the bottom,
clearly it's not the same.
Also, and much more importantly...
Most posts are not too much more than one screen long. Therefore if I am speed
reading posts via the web I can leave a mouse cursor on the next button if the
button is fixed in the bar. If it's a more at the bottom I have to cursor down
to find the more in an unfixed place.
> (Well, for one thing, the current display always puts the "more" links at
> the bottom, which is undesirable if you want to browse one at a time.)
Yes.
++Lar
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| (...) OK, this only took some small tweaks to make it do this (about 10-15 minutes). It's nothing fancy (numeric links rather than pretty words or buttons) and it's not especially bright (detects walking off the low end but not the high end) but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) Yes and no...probably not precisely the semantics that you're describing (could you go into more detail?) but yes in terms of the general idea of forward/backward buttons. It would be fairly straightforward to put next & prev links (or (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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