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Flaimo
New Member
Austria
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 Posted - 17 May 2001 : 22:35:21
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i don't see this feature very often on message boards, but i think it's quite useful. if someone has already visited a thread, the next time he sees the thread, he only has to click that little arrow to get to the first unread message.
flaimo,
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 May 2001 : 03:06:58
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individual messages are not marked as read, so how would it help.
also, you can not jump to an individual reply. only a page.
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2001 : 10:08:41
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Actually, I've been thinking about this one.
There are times when it would have been nice to point someone directly to a specific reply on a page. So I was thinking that hey, it would be great if we had the html bookmarks on the page so that we could send someone a url like:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=9756#REPLY549
Hmm...the last read thing tho...this wouldn't work for that...
Hmm...(I'm thinking aloud)
It would have to be done dynamically. So the link on the arrow would probably have the last visit date as a querystring parameter and and also the bookmark thing "#unread" would be appended. On the target page, you would insert the html bookmark at the first topic that had a posting date that was newer/greater than the last visit date from either the querystring or thinking now, that's also available in a cookie too!
What do you guys think? 
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2001 : 10:10:53
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individual messages are not marked as read, so how would it help.
Oh, forgot to reply to this...I think they're looking to do it the same way that active topics are determined. Just use the last visit date and assume that anything before has been read and that anything after that date has not been?
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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Flaimo
New Member
Austria
72 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2001 : 12:13:47
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it would be great if we had the html bookmarks on the page so that we could send someone a url like:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=9756#REPLY549
What
that's what i was thinking off too. use the ID number of each post an create an anchor for every post in the topic.asp. something like
<a href="jump<% = rs("ID") %>"</a>
and store this rs("ID") in a cookie...
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2001 : 12:52:40
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I wouldn't mind working on this one as a mod.
I have a fairly good idea how to do it. I've already been somewhat dissecting that particular type of board anyways. 
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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CHEETAH
New Member
Sweden
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
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CHEETAH
New Member
Sweden
60 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2001 : 09:43:47
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it doesn't work. You gotta give each post a special number, not the same name! So that if the topic has 33 replies, the blue arrow leads the user to a page ending with "#33"! right?
cheers
/CHEETAH - cheetah@plus.idg.se - www.diskuterapolitik.com |
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
Posted - 29 May 2001 : 11:42:28
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it doesn't work. You gotta give each post a special number, not the same name! So that if the topic has 33 replies, the blue arrow leads the user to a page ending with "#33"! right?
No, not the way I see it. Here's my reasoning:
Yes, every new post has this added:
<a name="newpost">
The goal of the mod was to get to the first unread message, which this will do. I compare the post time to the last visit date and if the post time is newer than I write out the anchor tag. So 20 out of 30 posts may have the same anchor tag & name. But all that's needed is for the browser to hit the first anchor. This was the easiest solution without requiring additional code and db utilization which would ultimately end up doing the same thing.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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CHEETAH
New Member
Sweden
60 Posts |
Posted - 29 May 2001 : 13:16:59
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ah! okay! missunderstood you!  sorry! :)
cheers
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