in reply to • What is this?

Suggestion: (although it smells like work for pmdev's)
New configuration in user-settings:
Set a list of users who's nodes you want to be tagged(•) in Newest Nodes for easier recognition.
eg. qw[merlyn demerphq theonetwo pelagic].
Set a list of users who's nodes you want to be hidden in Newest Nodes because you think they suck.
eg. qw[merlyn demerphq theonetwo pelagic].
update
of course in real the membership in either list would be mutually exclusive ...

pelagic

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Re^2: • What is this?
by greenFox (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2004 at 02:44 UTC

    I for one would find some implementation of this useful. I currently achieve that affect by making sure I have visited the homenodes of Monks of interest, combined with a good colour scheme which differentiates visited and unvisited links I can find their nodes fairly easily. But it is very brittle and any of the following break it- if you visit a Monks homenode for some other reason, if you clear or loose your browser history, you work from multiple computers, browser history times out after a while (9 days is the default for Firefox).

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    Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

      ... and I do it exactly the same way with that in my personal css:
      a:visited {color: #008000;}
      With Opera you can define the time how long you want to mark links as visited ...

      pelagic

        And getting a bit crazy with it (and pointless since it wouldn't be searchable by anything but eye) the PM gods could add "author" attributes into "a" tags:

        <a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=323154" author="323154">A Marlin is, A Merlyn isn't</a>.

        This will work on browsers that properly support CSS2:

        a[author="323154"]:before { /* unicode bullet */ content:'\2022 '; }

        This has a pretty interesting effect:

        /* id=3628 is Newest Nodes */ #3628 .main_content a:visited { visibility: hidden; }

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        Damon Allen Davison
        http://www.allolex.net

        " ... and I do it exactly the same way with that in my personal css"

        Yep that's what I do. And it's brittle for all the reasons I gave.

        "With Opera you can define the time how long you want to mark links as visited ..."

        And you can in Firefox too.

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        Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho