RE: Chatterbox etc

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!

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RE: RE: Chatterbox etc (kudra: old chitter-chatter about msgs) by kudra (Vicar) on May 18, 2000 at 19:42 UTC
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.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Chatterbox etc by turnstep (Parson) on May 18, 2000 at 19:50 UTC
Empty messages do not appear. I simply check and hit talk.	[reply]
RE: RE: Chatterbox etc by misty (Hermit) on May 18, 2000 at 19:02 UTC
tag.. always forgetful.. unfortunately, I cannot edit my original post.	[reply]
RE: RE: Chatterbox etc by infoninja (Friar) on May 19, 2000 at 00:38 UTC
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.	[reply]
RE: RE: Chatterbox etc by lhoward (Vicar) on May 18, 2000 at 21:17 UTC
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...)	[reply]