Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 16:52:37 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 19:20:32, Steven Schwartz wrote: >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 My impression is that the missing part is: going directly from the end of one thread to the next thread without having to return to the main message listing. Assuming that's what's desired, I would like to suggest a refinement. Since I read from least recent thread to most recent thread, [So I won't miss anything when pages are retired] I would like to jump from end of current thread to the beginning of the more recent thread. Someone else might wish to jump from the current thread to the next older thread. If both ways were provided, then everybody would be happy. This is not a show-stopper. The way it is now is not bad. Bob D. Bob D.
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