[ba-ohs-talk] Re: D3E use: WAS: GUI ideas
Hi - thanks to all for the feedback. We're painfully aware of
Phorum's limitations, but wanted to get a d3e-modified first cut out
there for use. I'm logging your change requests, but obviously we've
gone open source to spread the load too ;-) Watch this space... (01)
At 1:14 PM -0500 11/10/01, Alex Shapiro wrote:
>1. When I clicked Quote to quote the message I was replying to, the
>message appeared as it was without any ">" signs preceding each line. (02)
definitely - I wanted to fix this, but it slipped down the list (03)
>This makes it impossible to quote between the lines. Also, another
>problem with quoting is that the message is quoted with <html> tags
>around it, and then does not seem to format properly once it is
>displayed. (04)
quoting normally just gives plain text - am checking this out (05)
>2. There should be an easy way to provide a hyperlink to an
>individual message, (not even getting into purple numbers). I
>wanted to provide a second response to a message that someone had
>already responded to, but to also acknowledge that I had read the
>content of the first responce. However, there is no easy way to
>provide a hyperlink to an individual message (I think that there
>might be a hard way by stealing the link from the tree-navigation). (06)
Currently easiest way is the web standard way: just copy the URL of
the msg to the clipboard and then paste it into your msg (07)
The *current thread* is displayed below the field for composing your
comment, so if the target msg is in that thread, you can already see
and copy its URL. But if it's in another thread, then you can freely
browse the tree to find the target, if you've opened the Reply box in
a fresh window. (08)
I appreciate that this isn't quite as elegant as it might be. We have
considered adding all sorts of wizzy javascript that modifies the
right menu etc, but these tend to be browser specific - we wouldn't
be happy if all this worked only in IE! A complete applet seems often
the only way to implement really elegant user interfaces. But the PHP
code's there, ready and waiting... (Gary our developer is doing this
whilst *really* working on ScholOnto!) (09)
Simon (010)