Posted on 10/27/2005 5:16:18 PM PDT by John Robinson
Edited on 10/30/2005 2:01:52 PM PST by John Robinson. [history]
Change can be good.
Thanks!
Thanks John...God Bless you!
Very well thought-out and useful changes, John. Have you thought of using iframes to separate the article text from the posts? This would let you keep the article on every page, without having to increase the load on the server.
PONG
Thanks Oxen
Do what needs to be done, if it were not for you and your partners maintaining FR...........
I don't even want to think about it.
I can't give much, but I give what I can. If it were not for FR, I would not have much contact with Old Sarge in Iraq either.
Thank you for what you do.
God bless America, You and our Free Republic.
...or scroll to the top of any thread, click "Pings", then click "More", then click "My Comments (self-search)".
...or goto your Profile page (http://www.freerepublic.com/~getmeouttapalmbeachc/ ) and click on the "In Forum" link in the menu.
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I know precious little HTML (and no Java) and dont know how to write code for a CSS or JavaScript that would add the div tags in the proper spots to the downloaded code, but I suspect it would not be too difficult for you to add the div at your end. Could/would you do this? I dont think it would add significantly to the file size. (Or alternatively, point me to a web site where I could learn to do it on my end)
And then instruct CSS to hide that user's messages: .u22380 { display: none }
This of course would all be transparent to the end-user.
If the div tags were included on your end, I think I could add this to my browser's CSS.
Thanks for all your work on the forum.
"As soon as I can sort it out, I'd like to enable posters to be able to update their own articles (and comments for that matter.) And, at least for articles, to allow a select list of other people to be able to edit the article (i.e. some type of article with several authors.)"
That would be great, it would be wiki type functionality for a group. A great use for the pages will, since they are updatable, turn into repositories where FReepers could follow particular things, posting quotes from relevent stories into the main article over time, for example. Keep in mind though, they will end up VERY long threads!
In fact, these long threads would end up like a permanent message board on a subject - it would be an interesting dynamic change for the board, for sure.
We always knew that you're a genius, do you have to keep proving it ? :o)
Thanks for the ping about this, Tonk!
I agree with the "more than 50" comment.
I save some threads, and having to click and save a 2,000+ thread as a series of 50-posts per page is really tedious.
Mybe there is some way to create a "printer-friendly" file that saves all of a thread in its entirety as one file?
Thaanks for all your hard work, by the way...I love this site.
Ed
I'll consider some type of archival link. Something like 500 comments per page. Maybe a thousand. Just under what it would take to kill a browser, I imagine.
had decided I was just talking to myself on this thread.....
That's why I always have Dieter my invisible friend around. We have long talks, and he helps me figure things out, od course sometimes he doesn't give good advise, like the time he told me to smear myself with chocolate syrup and run naked down the street.
Amen and Amen!
Damn....FAST at this end....Could be the changes at my end though!
I suspect I may be suffering from paranoia. Egad, maybe I'm delusional!
Aha! I can see clearly now la, la, la. The bosses of the big house threw their Demohabits overboard. What about ME? Take me with you...save my sanity.
Change my voter registration now!
(You aren't thinking of replacing me with one of those dog thingies, are you?) I promise I will wag my tail, walk on a leash (ugh), sit up and beg for your friends, and lick your face. Just don't call me a Democrat!
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