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The UI for highlighting a post currently requires 3 mouse clicks -- and is located at the bottom of the message body. If this was changed to a single click, and relocated to the top of the webpage, it would make highlighting just that much easier. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Suggestion: streamline highlighting interface
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(...) Hi Steve, I put this on the suggestion list. (URL) anybody has serious concerns regarding this suggestion? Leg Godt! Rene (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Suggestion: streamline highlighting interface
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(...) My guess would be that there are a number of reasons it is the way it is, although how likely they are intentional and of utmost importance, I can't say. 1) Making it be 3 mouse clicks decreases the chance that someone accidentally (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Suggestion: streamline highlighting interface
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(...) Of course there's another good reason to have a link to the post in the post itself for SMTP/NNTP... I'm always having to create a link when I want to reference another post (of course this speedup, even if you still have to scroll to the (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Not concerns, but personally I'd like to see a full updating of the Web interface. Todd's original design worked fantastic, I think, but it's been up for what? 8 years? I think it's time to employ some modern interface design tactics! Jake --- (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Hi Jake, though I think it's not necessary to change something just because it's eight years old, especially when working fine, I'm currently working over the markup language into xhtml1.1 in combination with css2. !!! Please note that this is (...) (18 years ago, 14-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Suggestion: streamline highlighting interface
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(...) Hi Dave, all good points! (...) Now a tiny link next to the "submit" button leads newbies to Todd's explanation on how Highlighting works. Thanks for the hint! Leg Godt! Rene (18 years ago, 14-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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