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Re: Dot's ALT tag
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 29 May 2000 10:00:02 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> > Just an idea - what if the dots in the bottom of a thread would have ALT tags
> > that would have some info on the message they're pointing to... i.e.:
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> > "Dan Boger - Dot's ALT tag"
> I think that would be incredibly useful. Often, a thread changes topic, and
> many people change the subject line along with the topic. If the dots had an
> alt="author - subject of message", it would make it much easier to find the
> beginning of these subthreads...
> --Bram
Me too. I wonder how complex it would be to implement, though. It might slow
down presenting the tree significantly, or it may have almost no impact,
depending on how the tree is constructed.
++Lar
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| (...) The tree currently only records a copy of the basic minimal information needed to draw itself -- namely the parent and child message id's. Since it doesn't cache copies of any data found inside articles themselves (such as the poster's name or (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I think that would be incredibly useful. Often, a thread changes topic, and many people change the subject line along with the topic. If the dots had an alt="author - subject of message", it would make it much easier to find the beginning of (...) (24 years ago, 27-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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