To: John Robinson
Oh, here's something that makes me absolutely nuts. In the text box where I'm typing now, it used to be that when I tried to scroll beyond the end of the text with the arrow keys, the cursor stayed at the end of the text. Now it gets transported magically to the top of the text with the next keystroke. The only safe way to position the cursor at the end of the text (e.g., to append more text) is by using the mouse, which is awkward. Can this be put back the way it was?
To: Physicist
Now that's an odd one. What browser are you using? I have no control over that, or I should say, if I do, I'm not aware of it!
To: Physicist; John Robinson
Oh, here's something that makes me absolutely nuts. In the text box where I'm typing now, it used to be that when I tried to scroll beyond the end of the text with the arrow keys, the cursor stayed at the end of the text. Now it gets transported magically to the top of the text with the next keystroke. The only safe way to position the cursor at the end of the text (e.g., to append more text) is by using the mouse, which is awkward. Can this be put back the way it was? Physicist isn't dreaming--I have the same problem [IE 5.00.2614.3500] It really is annoying; my guess is that there's a small change in the [form] HTML, but without having old and new copies to compare it's hard to tell.
Also, if I might put my 2¢ in on a few other issues (is that 6¢ total?):
- The self-search would be much more useful if posts were clearly marked by some bright colored indicator to indicate whether they were to-me, by-me, or to-all on threads I'd posted to. Additionally, or as an alternative, include at the top of the self-search a list of all the threads in each of those categories.
- It might be nice to be able to mark a thread as being 'of interest' in which case the system would cause a notation to appear on the self-search screen any time anyone writes to it. This would be really annoying if default behavior, but at times it could be handy. For example, someone may ask a technical question to which I don't know the answer but would like to. It would be nice to be able to express my interest in this thread (and also receive any all-pings from it) without having to stick in a "me-too" post.
- FR is awesome. Keep up the good work!
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