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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:37:06 GMT
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It is summer time, not lego time (= winter time), so I haven't felt this before
now.
I haven't seen this in my newsreader, but I can imagine that it might look
really funny/odd.

But leaving that of, here is my first suggestion:
I will only post plain text anyway, and it would be easier to have a "post"
button next to the "preview". I think the preview is only needed when posting
FTX messages, an plain text message I know what will look like.

Part2: This attention button is even more anoying!

Sonnich


In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman wrote:
> I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web
> interface:
> 
> * [Fixed-width font now used for plain-text messages.]
>   Once upon a time, when LUGNET first served up messages via the web,
>   messages were displayed in a fixed-width font.  This was good, and held to
>   tradition, but caused problems for people reading on low-end 640x480
>   screens (common at the time).  We changed the font from Courier to Times
>   Roman in order to compress the message display.  Well, almost five years
>   have passed since then, and the era of postage-stamp sized screens is long
>   gone.  So: it's now changed back to Courier.  (Note: if you prefer a
>   fixed-width font other than Courier, you can configure this in your web
>   browser preferences.)
> 
> * [Quoted snippets now show in rainbow of colors.]  Each "level" of quoted
>   reply now has its own color, instead of all levels having the same color.
>   The color shifts are subtle, yet evident.  Now you can visually pick apart
>   layers of replies with ease.
> 
> * [FTX content in messages.]  A picture is worth a thousand words.  You can
>   now post and view FTX messages through the web interface.  This means you
>   can do a lot of neat new things in your messages.  (And you can still post
>   messages in plain text too.)  FTX messages show in a proportional-spaced
>   font called Verdana.
> 
> The remainder of this announcement is a gentle introduction to FTX.



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  Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web interface: Fixed-width font now used for plain-text messages. Once upon a time, when LUGNET first served up messages via the web, messages were displayed in a fixed-width font. (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX) !! 

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