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Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
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Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:12:52 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, David Schilling writes:
2) There should be a "Preview" button so you can see what your post will
look like before you actually post it.  This would actually let you fix
line wrapping mistakes, urls split across lines, etc.

There's now an intermediate page:  in place of the "Post Message" button
there is now a "Preview Message" button.  Clicking that brings you to a
mock-up page using the same display code as the "real" article would use
once it appears after being posted.  Then you can check the line wrapping
and the URLs and all that.  And then click "Post Message" to make it post
for real.

Cool. Saw it in action, nice.

Now give us both a post AND preview button.  :-)

This lets us post the quickies quickly, as well as circumventing the large
message problem you allude to below. (Power users) <intersect> NN3 users) (is
the intersection of those sets non empty??) would know to hit post on large
messages so as not to choke the hidden field.

++Lar



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  Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
 
(...) OK -- changepoint here tonight: Beneath the editing window, there are now two buttons -- "Preview" and "Post." (And "Post" has the additional option of the e-mail checkbox.) Also, like the FTX page-editing cycle, the preview page also includes (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) There's now an intermediate page: in place of the "Post Message" button there is now a "Preview Message" button. Clicking that brings you to a mock-up page using the same display code as the "real" article would use once it appears after being (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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