[disrgr]

That said, I still wish FR had a true HTML editor. I hate having to type in all the formatting codes all the time.

If you use Mozilla Firefox, there are two little extensions you can use to help out. One is bbCodeXtra/htmlExtra, and the other is Insert Signature. The first one lets you chooses a variety of html or bbCode tags from a context menu with a click of your mouse. The second lets you input any characters you like so you can choose them from the context menu, with your mouse. For instance, one of mine is the < p > tag; I select it from the menu, click on it, and it prints on the screen. Used together, you don't have to type in tags over and over.

Sincerely,

d

[George W. Bush]

If you use Mozilla Firefox, there are two little extensions you can use to help out. One is bbCodeXtra/htmlExtra, and the other is Insert Signature.

You might be interested in a Firefox extension that I've been coding called FRstyle for a while. Started as a Stylish script, revamped to Greasemonkey, now a full extension. Only released to a small beta test group (including John Robinson who codes FR's Perl now). Some screenshots at Photobucket (each link opens in a new tab or window).

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  thread view
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  posting comments view
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  embedded YouTube video

Sloppy code, I'm still working on it, testing features, removing stuff I don't like. I like the embedding of YouTubes, the easy editing, the styles that are easier on the eye than black text on white. Well, chances are I'll never release it publicly the way things are now here at FR. Not worth the trouble and interest isn't strong anyway. FR is very largely a crowd of older folk who run the browser that came with their machine (IE on Windows, Safari on Mac).

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Styria, AJAX is a technique to organize data via standard XML data techniques and using Javascript to manipulate pages and offer features while a web page is loading. This allows for lots of 'live' features, updating only the parts of a page that have changed, integrating with blogs and services like MySpace, Facebook, etc. One of the more obvious applications would be the kind of things I do with Firefox (pics above) but on all browsers. A highly desirable feature would be live updates where your browser would send off a request every so many seconds requesting a page refresh of threads you currently have open, e.g. you have a thread open and the last post is #70 and after 60 seconds, your browser fires off a request telling the FR server the thread URL and post #70 and then it sends back a response with posts 71-80 which have been posted in the last 60 seconds. It would give FR a live feel and eliminate a lot of extra full-page refreshes, save server bandwitdth. You could also include the posting stuff right on the webpage, not take the user to a separate posting page. Again, less bandwidth, fewer clicks, fewer page loads, more immediate responses.

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