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Orion Pobursky wrote:
>
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, John P. Henderson writes:
> > If the verification problem is something that even members get when not
> > using the interface that I do, then I argue that maybe the web interface is
> > your solution if you really don't like the system, and who among us doesn't
> > have a web browser available half the time anyway?
>
> My slight problem with the web interface is that I cannot use any of my
> signature/taglines without copy and pasting from an external source. I poat
> a suggestion to this fact about a week ago but have been ignored. I think
> this would be a good feature for registered members.
Other shortcomings of the web interface:
- doesn't keep track of read/unread posts very well
- doesn't allow marking a post as unread (I do this all the time when I
want to return later to the post to respond)
- doesn't support built in spell checking
- presents a rather small, fixed size window for editing
- doesn't present a list of groups of interest, highlighting those with
unread posts
I have considered writing a special web client for Lugnet that would
provide all these features.
Of course there are some nice advantages of the web interface (at least
over the NNTP clients I have used):
- can easily bookmark posts
- the little dots tree (so long as the number of posts fit) that follows
the tree no matter what groups it wanders into (which can also be a
negative thing)
- quickly scan a bunch of posts
- as mentioned before, members need not authenticate posts
Frank
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