| ??? 11/05/08 06:54 Read: times |
#159690 - Response Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Craig Steiner said:
You mean the orange color of Online Store, Consulting Services, and The 8052.com Book? Yes. Orange on gray gives low contrast, and people - mostly men - with problems with their color vision may get into extra troubles, depending on type of deficiency. Exact IE version? Operating System version? Anything else that might possibly make a difference? US installation with Swedish national settings. IE 7.0.5730.13 Win XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 Besides normal plugins such as Adobe PDF reader, I also have Norton anti-virus 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. Forums that enforces preview (and in your ase extra previews if I see a spelling error and add a single character) regularly makes me walk away from the computer or switch to another site without performing the final post. My internal state machine considers information sent after first button press. And, as mentioned, the people who don't care about formatting will still not care. But note that it isn't enough to scroll past the preview. I have to also scroll past the edit box. But I can't simply jump to the bottom of the page, since that shows the message I'm responding to. And doing all that scrolling again just because I corrected one spelling error feels counter-productive. 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? No, the older forum software just tagged individual posts as read without being affected by the time-stamp of the post, so I could read the posts one-by-one in any order I wanted. With a threaded view, it is logical to read one branch before the other and in this case, the read state gets updated in a linear mode. This post-by-post tagging was one of the things I was very impressed with in the previous version of the forum, since it was so easy to follow a discussion. |
