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The numbers are rather small and hard to click on. Some extra space around them would be nice to make the target area larger. Something like:
<a> 1 </a>-<a> 2 </a>-<a> 3 </a>-
and so on.
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
Also, instead of that evil popup window to confirm a vote, why not use DHTML and change the voting area into the "your vote was recorded" message. The user is already looking there so they will see the message, and it avoids a popup.
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I think the pop-up is there to send the data back to the server, and not just to inform the user.
What could be done, in my opinion, is to have a pop-under instead of a pop-up to send the data (the pop-under can auto close itself after it sends the data --> is that even possible?), and DHTML to change the voting area as you said.
Or a small IFRAME.
We also need to update the FAQ and include stuff about this new feature. But let things settle down a bit.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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A pop-under is no different to a pop-up. Auto-closing is possibly. An IFRAME is also possible but will only work for IE or NS6 or above. It'll happen in message rating v1.2
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
An IFRAME is also possible but will only work for IE or NS6 or above.
Compliance, compliance, compliance. Don't you wish that you didn't have to be compliant for once. 
Chris Maunder wrote:
It'll happen in message rating v1.2
I love versioning... 
Nick Parker
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Nick Parker wrote:
Compliance, compliance, compliance. Don't you wish that you didn't have to be compliant for once
All he has to do is be stadards compliant and he can use IFRAMEs up to the ying yang.
Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
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Unhappily, the Standard is not world compliant. 
Auch den Schatten will ich lieben weil ich manchmal lieber frier' Rosenstolz [sighist]
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is it possible to get the link to amazon on toolbox to be country specific - so for me it would be .co.uk rather than .com
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."
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Philip Fitzsimons wrote:
is it possible to get the link to amazon on toolbox to be country specific - so for me it would be .co.uk rather than .com
thats a good idea. i didnt even realise that was there - you learn something new every day
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PDA/Palm development
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Jason Henderson wrote:
PDA/Palm development
LOL! Now there is a good suggestion. The Lounge sometimes becomes Palm Dev Talk day.
Now that Palm might be supporting the .NET Compact Framework I am sure a .NET Compact Framework/Handhelds forum would be a good idea for CP.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
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yeah i vote for a ".NET Compact Framework" area
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."
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Chris,
Just noticed that once you set the noise level it's the same on all the forums [I presume it's saved through the use of cookies?].
Think it might be a good idea if you could set different noise filter levels for different forums. Just a thought.
[Moved from the lounge]
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
Think it might be a good idea if you could set different noise filter levels for different forums.
Yeah, that would be cool.
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9000 forums, 52,000 users. Storing settings for each user for each forum would be fantastic, but the overhead it would cause isn't worth the benefit at the moment. When I can convince Compaq or someone to donate a 4-head 2GHz, 4Gb Xeon to a good cause (ie me) then I'll do it 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
9000 forums, 52,000 users.
Oh yeah!!!
Chris Maunder wrote:
When I can convince Compaq or someone to donate a 4-head 2GHz, 4Gb Xeon to a good cause (ie me) then I'll do it
Cool. Not be happening in the near future then??? 
Would be nice to get them to donate one... Just tell them you'll slap an advert on teh front page for a year. That'll convince them.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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compression?
or only record the forums that people set it for - so for example i use 4/5 forums and i guess thats pretty average - so the worst would be
3 bits (max five levels) + forum id [16 bits]: call it 20bits for luck
* 5 forums (average - ob. some user will have less, some more, but always way less than 9000)
* 52,000 users
= 5200,000 bits
which is not much space at all....
of course this relies on using a packed representation
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."
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Nothing worse than giving a flippant excuse to try and dodge work only to have someone point out the obvious piece of the puzzle you were trying to hide
The issue isn't only the size of the data, it's the number of rows involved and the time taken to do the extra lookup.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Can't this be done with cookies ?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
9000 forums
hmmm, you could consider the forums for the articles all with the same setting, and just have different ones for the forums listed on the message boards page, i calculate that to be 21 - only a little under 9000
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When I can convince Compaq or someone to donate a 4-head 2GHz, 4Gb Xeon to a good cause (ie me)
Is there a petition I can sign somewhere?
"When in danger, fear, or doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" - Lorelei and Lapis Lazuli Long
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
Just noticed that once you set the noise level it's the same on all the forums [I presume it's saved through the use of cookies?].
Odd that, I swear (and even posted) that this did happen when the voting first started.
I must be getting old... damend oldtimers disease.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Paul Watson wrote:
damend oldtimers disease.
It is damn annoying, isn't it.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
It is damn annoying, isn't it.
What's annoying? Keh? Eh? What's that sonny?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Paul Watson wrote:
What's annoying? Keh? Eh? What's that sonny?
LOL.. 
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I like the concept of rating posts and filtering on the ratings.
But I think the presentation should be different for filtered out posts. It looks just like someone has deleted the post - especially when the posts below in that thread are visible.
Perhaps one should make all posts under an underated "node" hidden? The underated post heading should also be listed, but perhaps with a different color. This could potentially save a couple of CPU cycles/network traffic if the tree below the underated node is large. Thus you'd get some CPU cycles/network traffic back in return.
Just my 2 öre.
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Give me some more of the warm little beasts
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