I have maybe a nice idea, ripped from IPB but so what? It's a little chanche in the HTML code (if the team doesn't build this in the style i shall do it my self but I think a lot of people shoud like this little changing in the code).
Now it's only possible to mark forums as read in the category index or the forum index, but isn't it a good idea to make it also possible whit a link on the forum image. So when you click to the image before an forum you mark al posts as read.
I know it isn't allowed to ask for new features now but this isn't a feature (I think so) and it is just 3 minutes work for the devellopers.
Style change
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Re: Style change
juul wrote: ...and it is just 3 minutes work for the devellopers.
Actually not. Invision Power Board and vBulletin use AJAX for this! You have my word, an AJAX implimentation is not a three minute task
They could do it, but only as a _GET sended parameter to mark the forum as read. Two page loads will be necessary in any occasion.
Re: Style change
Spiros- wrote:juul wrote: ...and it is just 3 minutes work for the devellopers.
Actually not. Invision Power Board and vBulletin use AJAX for this! You have my word, an AJAX implimentation is not a three minute task
They could do it, but only as a _GET sended parameter to mark the forum as read. Two page loads will be necessary in any occasion.
Have i said white AJAX 3 minutes? I don't think so, i've said just whit a hyperlink (and it's realy easy to do it so, the dev's musn't make any new php code).
Re: Style change
I agree this could be done rather easily (don't think in terms of existing implementations by other boards), it would even be something that could easily be added by individual administrators by editing the template, I imagine. However, the consequence of doing it the "easy" way would be that clicking the icon takes you into the forum you were marking read (I'm assuming read-marking is done through a simple GET-variable on viewforum.php), which might not be a desired behaviour.
Of course, then there are slightly more involved alternatives that just use page reloads (e.g. handling the marking in index.php). AJAX would be a possibility, but by far not the only one.
This I find a stretch, by the way. Yes, it's a small change (at least in its most basic form I described above), but it's still a functionality change, which qualifies as a feature request in my book. Remember that actually implementing feature requests is only one side of the coin. Discussing them and deciding whether they are a good idea is the other, which also takes time. Time that could go into bug squashing to take us closer to an actual release.
Of course, then there are slightly more involved alternatives that just use page reloads (e.g. handling the marking in index.php). AJAX would be a possibility, but by far not the only one.
I know it isn't allowed to ask for new features now but this isn't a feature (I think so) and it is just 3 minutes work for the devellopers.
This I find a stretch, by the way. Yes, it's a small change (at least in its most basic form I described above), but it's still a functionality change, which qualifies as a feature request in my book. Remember that actually implementing feature requests is only one side of the coin. Discussing them and deciding whether they are a good idea is the other, which also takes time. Time that could go into bug squashing to take us closer to an actual release.