| ??? 11/05/08 06:06 Read: times |
#159685 - New site Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
1) I can't read the top three menu choices, because of the color choice. They have too little grayscale contrast for me to see. When hovering, the contrast is a little bit better, but not much. In IE, I can click and drag to select the text and get the background to invert. That make me able to read the text, but this trick doesn't work in Firefox. You mean the orange color of Online Store, Consulting Services, and The 8052.com Book? 2) Would it be possible to get the new layout to keep the memory of read posts, instead of showing everything as new? Go to the bottom of the page and click "Mark all as New". The new system does keep track of posts read but uses a different system than the old one, so you have to click that to reset it. 3) When I write this message, every single character I press results in the screen display to jump. The width of the text input box widens a bit, resulting in all layout being updated. Then the layout directly returns to the previous. But the flicker is very annoying. This tested with IE7. Doesn't seem to happen with Firefox. I think that it is your Javascript code to remove the Post button when new text is added that results in this problem in IE. That was reported by a beta tester months ago but then I think it went away and I could never reproduce it. I'm using IE7 in Vista, too (for testing). Do you have any more information at all that could help me track this down? Exact IE version? Operating System version? Anything else that might possibly make a difference? 4) Could you make the menu remember that I'm in the forum, so it is possible to switch between the normal forum and the chat with a single click, instead of first having to click "Message Forum" just to expand the sub-menu? A good idea. I'll plan on that once critical things have been fixed. 5) Do we now always have to preview our post, even if we don't have any formatting that would be meaningful to preview? At least from the Keil forum, the experience is that people who can't get formatting correct will still not bother to look at the preview. They just click "Preview" and directly continue with the "Post" button. On this forum, there is always the "Edit" in case we do miss a markup. By the way: The preview show on the top, but if this is a long text, I have to scroll past the preview and past this input box to get down to the Post button. It might be an idea to show a post buton either on top of the preview, or directly below the preview, to avoid the scrolling. The idea of having the edit window below the preview is so that the user has to scroll through the message before posting. Hopefully if he scrolls through it he'll see anything that looks wrong and fix it. If I put the "Submit" button at the top of the preview then that purpose is defeated. 6) When looking at posts in a thread, IE only shows a red cross in white box instead of icon for "good post". In Firefox, there is no indication at all that there is a missing image associated with the post. See last post (03/Nov/08 10:47 am) in thread http://www.8052.com/forum/read/159552 Should be fixed now. 7) Is it intentional that reading one post should mark all posts with earlier date above as read? From a couple of quick experiments, this seems to indicate that in a threaded discussion I may walk through one branch of the discussion and at the same time mark another branch as read, i.e. to not miss a post we are forced to read the posts from top to bottom, even if branching may interest me in reading the branches in another order. This should be the way it used to work as well. I use the flat mode as opposed to thread which makes it "just work." But if you select threaded mode and then read the posts in the "wrong" order then, yes, it makes sense that the rest of them will be marked as "read." The system only keeps track of the last message you read in a given thread so if you read a later message, all earlier messages are assumed to be read. But that's the same way the old system worked, too, so it shouldn't be having differently... is it? Regards, Craig Steiner 8052.com Webmaster |
