Hmm... that ties in very well with another pieve of mine: that it is so damn hard to get a reference to the current node, once you posted something, be it vote, or in the chatterbox, if for example you want to mention it to other monks. Sure, it's possible to display the node ID in the title of the current document, which then appears in the title bar, but you can't copy it easily. If you hadn't posted yet, at least you could copy the node ID from the location textbox.

The solution I was thinking of, if you can even call it that, is to make title of the node, a link to the node tself. Thanks to CSS, appearnace could just as well remain identical to what it is now, but at least you could simply reload the file, as "GET", by clicking on it, after which you can copy the node id from the location bar.

Granted, it's still iffy, but it would be a perfect solution for your current grief: you could reload the page by clicking on the title, and then bookmark; or, if you don't mind rightclicking, select "bookmark this link" (using Mozilla's terminology from the popup-menu. There. Perfect.

p.s. I'd still love it if the node id appeared somewhere near the ttile in the format [id://123], which would making copying it even easier. I don't know how obstrusive that would look.

In reply to Re: Why I hate voting -or- a grown man's plea to change vote submission by bart
in thread Bookmarking after a submit bookmarks The Gates; change target= ? by antirice

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