"Editing Grace Period" Is Here!
Submitted by jim on Mon, 04/07/2003 - 09:40
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I hope this brings smiles to the faces of the many users that have requested this feature. Listology now has a 30-minute grace period for forum posts. If you post something and notice some typos, you can correct them during this time. Any editable post will have a red-rimmed star next to it (new posts are still flagged with the black-rimmed stars). Please don't use this feature to substantially change posts that have replies, thus breaking continuity. Abuse it and lose it, not that I think any of you will. Hope you like it!
Now, ya know what'd be really cool? If you equipped the Listology with the memory-erasing flashy device from "Men in Black", so if anyone reads a message before it is edited, they will have no memory of it. Maybe you could save that for next winter.
What makes you think I haven't implemented that feature already?
Jim, I was thinking maybe Wheaties, vacation, or perhaps benzadrine, or all of the above. Or is it that programming is really a snap, one of those occupations the uninitiated think is really, really difficult, like brain surgery, only more highly paid, but is in fact just a snap. That's it, isn't it. I always suspected as much :-D
Programming is more highly paid than brain surgery?! That seals it - that elective brain surgery I was considering is off the table. :-)
Programming is a snap if you're wired the right way. I used to think programming was easy and it was one of the dirty secrets of the profession that everybody thought it was hard. I thought anybody could not only learn to program, but program well. But I've seen way too much bad code to believe that anymore.
It sounds like I should at least consider Wheaties, and perhaps vacation and benzadrine as well. Imagine what I could accomplish then!
Jim, I don't know if what I'm about to describe is new or not. What does it mean when a comment has no star but only has a Black Dot or White Dot next to it?
The way I do the indendation for the discussion is by treating the whole thing like a big nested bulletted list, using the <UL>, <OL>, and <LI> HTML tags. So those dots are just the bullets that come with the territory. Some browsers change the bullet depending on the level of the nesting (so you might see black dots, white dots, squares, etc.). You'll notice that starred posts have the bullets too. Does that make sense?
(I used the "edit post" feature to add info on why the bullets change. I love this feature. I can't believe it took me so long to add it.)
But what if I only see a Black or White Dot and no Stars at all? Is that possible? What causes a Star (be it black or red outlined) or a lack of Star?
My list that I'm seeing it on is here. None of the comments have stars next to them.
Scroll to the top of this discussion (not to the top of the list) and look at the note all the way to the right. I probably should have put that in a more obtrusive spot. But basically the black-rimmed stars are new posts (36 hour cutoff, I think), red-rimmed stars are editable posts (30 minute cutoff), and posts with no stars are neither.
Yeah, I saw that before. My question had more to do with Star and Not Star. Now I understand. After 36 hours a comment will no longer have a Star.
Wow, Jim! Have you started eating your Wheaties in the morning or what? So many great changes, and this one has to be a favorite of typo-proned speed keyers such as I!
Thanks a million!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks for the compliments! I'm glad you appreciate the new features! I knew you'd like this one. :-)
I'm still a Cheerios man, but I realized a few days ago that winter was just about over and I'd done almost none of my customary winter Listology programming. I panicked! Hence the flurry of activity. I think I've just about run out of things to do this time around though, and I have a couple other projects I need to give my attention to. So except for slapping on a "donate here" banner and perhaps selling Listology coffee mugs, I guess it's about time to start collecting everybody's wish list for next winter...
Tee hee, I just posted this and it has a little red-rimmed star next to it. I must say I'm pleased with this particular implementation (a sentence that should cue a bug-ridden Listology breakdown if ever there was one).