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But from an end-users viewpoint, what difference does it make how it's implemented?
I'm in the process of re-writing my site using ASP.NET and C#. Not because it's the sexy, new thing, but because the usability and design of the existing site was in need of a major overhaul.
ASP.NET just happens to be the right tool for this job.
However, rewriting a site to use ASP.NET or anything else -- "just because" -- doesn't seem very smart.
Don't get me wrong. Sure, I'd love a new site in ASP.NET... if it meant new functionality that Chris could implement much quicker because .NET makes it easy for him do so.
Kiliman
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I hate to say it but it looks like we're getting organised.
Ah now Chris... What's going on... stop with all the organisation man!!!
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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Please, forbid an author to rate his own articles. I suspect there are authors who after posting their article are in hurry to rate it by 5 points. (A great number of new articles are rated by just one person and suprisingly, the rating is 5.)
Zdenek
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." [Abraham Lincoln]
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Unsure about it. It has happen to my 3 latest articles, while I have never self-voted.
And I swallow a small raisin.
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I frankly believe there are authors who never self-vote and I'm sure you are the one of them, but with the same breath I believe there are self-voters too. It's a statistics what makes me that sure. My suggestion just prevents such a behaviour, even though I understand that. CP seems to be a quite prestigious site 
Regards,
Zdenek
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." [Tom Robbins]
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Zdenek Navratil wrote:
I believe there are self-voters too
Most often individual votes are outweighted by high profiles voters, as said Ch.M. in another thread.
Zdenek Navratil wrote:
CP seems to be a quite prestigious site
Well, sure but there are many dev sites out there, and most of them have included interactive stuff such like voting.
What CP needs most for the time being is IMHO not a better rating, but a more efficient browsing (like comparing Google search to an older generation search engine). This is now almost impossible to get an article on purpose. See for yourself : do a search with "SaveAs".
And I swallow a small raisin.
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Hey Chris,
I'm thinking of buying a few books on Amazon.co.uk. Do you have any referral links to the uk site setup??? Just so CP gets a little money. 
Regards,
Brian Dela
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How about keyboard shortcuts, through accesskey="" attributes? They would be a lot more useful if I didn't have to switch to the mouse every time. Right now I only use them for link, really. The tooltips could display the keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Blah). But make sure that after the button is pressed, the code to insert the markup also focuses the cursor back in the textbox!
And also, just a really, really, really picky comment: The tooltips should be sentences, that is, with periods and no initial caps. Also maybe make the tag name in <>s. So, "Wrap the selected text in HTML <small> tags." Don't hurt me for being so picky, I'm sorry!
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337]
MadHamster Creations
"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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You can never be too picky. I'll add these to the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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May I ask how long is the ToDo list?
Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu
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There's roughly 20 items that are critical, about a dozen that are large scale, long term, and maybe 100 that are smaller tweaks.
If I sat down and brainstormed on things that can be added, changesd, improved etc I could easily quadrupal the size of the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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In the buttons below the message entering field, I mean. Please?
I'm sure Paul will agree with me here 
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337]
MadHamster Creations
"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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em and strong work well when you want emphasis or uh, strong  on a word or phrase, but when you want or need italics and bold you get no guarantees those are what you will get with em and strong.
Now as far as I know all current browsers render em and strong as italic and bold (respectively) but that could change.
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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True, but in conversational speech, such as most of what we do here, em and strong are more appropriate because we don't really care how the browser renders them, we just want to emphasize our point or make it stand out. But yes, sometimes b and i are needed. Hmmm...
How about two kinds of sections for formatting: structured and formatting (OK the names aren't to great, w/e).
Formatting is like things are currently, except without small, BIG, code, and link.
Structured is em, strong, small, BIG, code, link and then right aligned you have h1 through h7, all properly CSS-ed to be appropriate headings for a message.
I think this'd be cool!
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337]
MadHamster Creations
"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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What about cite? All these quotes...
Shog9
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That too!
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337]
MadHamster Creations
"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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What about someone who is online but want to hide?
Then a third choice should be provided.
And what about someone who hide for some time and want to be displayed online when joining to discuss in a hot topic?
Then a fourth choice should be provided.
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this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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How about not just in bold the forum name,but apply a distinct color to the forum name,or even cool,blink the forum name...
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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The forum name is already in bold if it has new messages.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Definately weird seeing you post messages at 2pm EST
Chris Maunder wrote:
The forum name is already in bold if it has new messages.
He's referring to the big list that you see when you first click the Message Boards link, on that page only the post count and number of new posts is in bold.
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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James T. Johnson wrote:
Definately weird seeing you post messages at 2pm EST
Don't worry - my brain still thinks it's 4AM 
James T. Johnson wrote:
He's referring to the big list that you see when you first click the Message Boards link, on that page only the post count and number of new posts is in bold.
Ah. Gotcha
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I think it's be better if the "A Visit to Redmond" articals where all grouped together under their own heading... at the moment they are places all over the list at http://www.codeproject.com/interview/[^]
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I agree !!
This has been distressing me for quite sometime as well.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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