Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 16:20:32 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 19:04:47, Roy Eassa wrote: >On June 19, 2002 at 18:34:45, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>On June 19, 2002 at 17:18:51, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>Hi Steve, >>> >>>Could you please put a clickable link in the message page to go to the next >>>message chronologically in the thread (which I imagine would go to the next >>>thread chronologically if there are no more messages in the current thread)? >>> >>>This would cut the number of clicks required to read a day's messages *in half* >>>and help reduce sore hands! >>> >>>If that's too difficult to implement, how about just a link to go to the next >>>message chronologically, even if it means not following threads? >>> >>>Thanks! >>> >>> -Roy. >> >>Like rgcc? >> >>Bob D. > > >I haven't look at that usenet group in many years, but I suppose it depends on >which newsreader program you're using. I've used at least a dozen of them over >the past decade and I think all the GUI ones (Mac & Windows) did indeed have >such a feature. > >But in this case I'm asking for a link on a web page, which is different from an >algorithm in an application. I would think it would be straightforward to >implement, as the "Archive Index" page already has the smarts to list the >messages in various orders. Just borrow a bit of that logic to get the next >message in whichever sequence the webmaster chooses to implement. (But please, >Mr./Ms. webmaster, pick one! Any "next message" link is better than none at >all!). > >I also read messages on at least 3 different stock market sites, and all of them >have a "next message" link you can click while reading a message, as do many, >many other types of "chat" sites. I don't think it's a huge or unusual feature >to hope for. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I reiterate. Maybe you missed the first one: Roy, I'm probably not understanding you, but if you go to, for instance: http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?236370 and scroll to the very bottom, don't you get what you are asking for? Steve
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