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Re: Horizontal Split

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3/9/1998 11:32 PM

Re: Horizontal Split

Steve:

Steve, you didn't forget that you can resize your whole browser window did you?

As a matter of fact, that never even occurred to me! My Windows desktop is so messy (like my real desktops at work and at home!) that I always run my browser full screen... Maybe I ought to look into those virtual desktop utilities so I could have one with all of my shortcuts and another with a nice background for running programs in a window, with a hot key to switch them back and forth as needed. (Some programs like Hijaak 95 don't run full screen and its really distracting for me to work with it with all of my garbage in the background...)

Steve

3/10/1998 12:19 AM

..how about adding a button (or whatever)to go to the previous message in a particular thread?

Definitely do-able (in fact, it's already on my list of things to do).

..would it be possible to color code the current post being displayed in a radically different color (like blue)?

I've tried to think of a way to do that without the performance hit of reloading the whole message list just to change the color of one line, but so far the only possibility I've come up with is to put a list of just the thread headings in one window, and the actual expanded threads in another; that way only the currently expanded thread would have to be reloaded. I might give that a try just to see how it goes, but I'm pretty sure some people would object to the extra mouse-clicking required to open each thread. JavaScript and/or Java may offer other solutions - I need to learn more.

I changed the message display to a proportional font. Is that better?

3/10/1998 2:00 AM

>>I changed the message display to a proportional
>>font. Is that better?

Yes!!
Can you set the same font and same size for writing replies please?

Also, would it make things more difficult for other users if you reduced the width of the default reply area, so it just fits within
the present default left-hand pane.
(As all messages and replies seem anyway to auto-wrap to fit, when redisplayed...would it matter if replies were originally typed into a half-screen wide box? (instead of approx 2/3 screen width as it is now)
- Stephen

3/10/1998 4:16 AM

Can you set the same font and same size for writing replies please?

How about the same size, but a non-proportional serif font; that way people can still enter ascii-schems easily (don't forget the <PRE></PRE> tags, folks). This change has now been made on both the regular and 'experimental' versions.

..if you reduced the width of the default reply area..

I gotta do some more head-scratching on the reply form thing; it's just not possible to make it the right size for all different display resolutions, but it might be possible to make it user-adjustable.

3/10/1998 11:07 AM
stephen	...now that ->> message display is _nice_ (medium sans-serif with maroon italics) Classy colour combination and readable at 10 feet. Perfect! The matching preview font is nearly as good to read....looks just a bit more compressed - is that the difference between prop and fixed? - Stephen

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