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Chatterbox etc

by misty (Hermit)
on May 18, 2000 at 18:34 UTC ( [id://13023]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

vroom does really a good job implementing new features, and I especially like that now we get a msg in chatterbox when the node is replied to. Two more ideas concerning these msg's:
  • it'd be nice if in the msg "node_id=blahblah" would be a link to that node
  • to remove the messages from chatterbox, we have to click the appropriate chekbox and click talk button. Wouldn't simply checking them off and going to another page be enough to remove msg's?

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RE: Chatterbox etc
by turnstep (Parson) on May 18, 2000 at 18:57 UTC

    I mentioned the first point in a reply to vroom's original announcement.

    Secondly, there is no way for the webserver to detect that you have clicked on a checkbox if you follow a normal link - only a form submit button (e.g. Voting) would do that.

    P.S. Please add a </UL> tag to the bottom of your post!

      Well, you could make every link on the page a submit and have your form going to a script which directs you to the url and processes any 'extras' like chatterbox messages. But given that it would be such an ugly mess, there's good reason not to do it.

      I have a bit of a problem too with having to press the talk button. I wonder if it is going to make a blank message from me appear, and have been afraid to get rid of a message for quite some time now, for just that reason (I wait until I have something to message to get rid of old messages). It would be nice if the help would say something about this (and, if empty messages aren't gagged, it'd be nice if they would be). This would make the talk button a bit more cuddly and probably eliminate protests about using it to destroy messages.

      Update:
      Thanks for the answer, turnstep. I'd still like to see a little note about it in the help.

        Empty messages do not appear. I simply check and hit talk.
      tag.. always forgetful.. unfortunately, I cannot edit my original post.
      This would increase the size of the chatterbox, but what if the private msg included a clear button in place of the checkbox ? Perhaps have a user setting that would allow the user to select the current style or replacing the checkbox with a submit button.
      How about embedding something in the (hopefully coming soon) clickable link that would acknowledge the chatterbox alert when you followed the link.

      Along the lines of the "unclosed list" problem, how about adding code that repairs common HTML errors in the posting (i.e. closing unclosed lists, tables, etc...)

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