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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:12:51 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ed Jones writes:
> > In that
> > blank space, it would be great to have the message thread flowgraph that
> > now appears a the bottom of the message so you could see where the message
> > was in the rank of things while you were reading it.
>
> That would rock, but there's no way to tell the width that the message will
> end up on the user's screen, especially with the other stuff added. People
> hate scrolling horizonally much more than they hate scrolling vertically.
> (At least this is what people who filled out the survey a while back said,
> and it also stands to reason.)
Slight clarification here (I'm sure I'm one of the people who said they
didn't like to scroll horizontally): I don't like horizontal scrolling,
when it was a design choice of the site developer(s). If the data is
visually structured, and it happens that the logical structure requires
horizontal scrolling, that wouldn't be *quite* so bad.
Probably better to leave this as an optional, configurable feature for the
future.
> But the underlying HTML/etc has been made a bit in mind with the possibility
> of including things in frames (optionally). Just a possibility.
I was just thinking that it would be very *good* use of frames, to show
lugnet just like Free Agent looks, with a list of newsgroups, a threaded
list of messages, and the current message. Especially if clicking Reply
could jump to a stand-alone page, and clicking submit on the reply page
took me back to the message being replied to. Just a thought.
Steve
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