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2. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by ZNorQ Jul 11, 2008
• 881 views

Never mind, I see now that it has been discussed before..

Kenneth / ZNorQ

4. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by ZNorQ Jul 11, 2008
• 840 views

Couldn't have said it better myself. Same goes for 'first' and 'last'.

Kenneth / ZNorQ

6. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by CChris Jul 11, 2008
• 844 views

I think Derek already suggested Older / Newer instead. No ambiguity. No need to care about where the arrows point, you could even flip them from time to time without damage. I'd second this suggestion.

CChris

8. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar Jul 11, 2008
• 903 views

Guys, this is going to change, just have to give me a bit of time. I am in a big time crunch at work.

Jeremy

10. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by Jason Gade Jul 11, 2008
• 824 views

I don't understand the problem it works exactly the way I expect it to do.

I start reading the oldest message. I click "next" and it goes to the next newer message. I click "previous" and it goes to the previous older message. Is there some other expected behavior?

BTW, Jeremy, this is a pretty slick list. I've been reading it almost since it went up but this is the first time I've felt like posting.

Preview, especially, is a nice feature.

j.

12. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar Jul 11, 2008
• 850 views

Ah... it hit my spam mail. Had no content and a subject of test... I am not very forgiving w/spam as my email address is very old and my poor mail server drops 90% of it's connections right away due to spam, of the remaining 10% only about 1% of that is even legit. It's crazy. Anyway, yes I got it.

The forum is written in Euphoria. SVN is a tool used to manage source code that may live on many different peoples machines. For instance, I have a copy, you may have a copy, eumario has a copy and Ron has a copy. What happens when Ron modifies forum.ex, as do I, then also you? Now you put your copy on the server, then I do, then Ron. Ron wins, only his changes will be visible. However, with SVN it handles a central storage for source code. In the above example, you commit your code to the repo, I then commit mine and SVN will merge my change into your change. Then Ron commits his and SVN does the same. Thus, in the end all the changes are kept. It manages conflicts (i.e. we edit the same line of code). It manages tags (1.0, 1.1, 1.2), it manages making branches for, say, experimental feature, let's try this out and see how it works out, but we do not want it in forum right now as it's just a try or a proof of concept, etc...

You can read about basic revision control practices on wikipedia:Revision_control and more about SVN specifically (there are many SCM systems) at Subversion's home page.

Jeremy

14. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by Derek Parnell Jul 11, 2008
• 894 views

Define "Normal".
Personally, I don't like either of those two site's layouts.

16. Re: EuForum; Next and Previous buttons

• Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Jul 11, 2008
• 1004 views
• Last edited Jul 12, 2008

Hi

To me the position of the newer / older buttons is counter intuiitve.

Most western civilisations read from left to right, so that forward is usually from left to right, and backwards from right to left.

Thus, on the main forum list older and oldest should be on the left hand side pointing to the left, and newer and newest should be on the right hand side pointing to the right, being consistent with the way that we read, and pointing forwards and backwards.

Similarly, on the message itself, older should be on the left pointing to the left, and newer should be on the right, pointing to the right.

This would be consistent with tape and cd players, where the play and fast forward buttons point to the right - uless anyone has ever encountered different.

As I said, most western civilisations read from left to right. I'm not sure how to accomodate those languages that are read up and down, or right to left.

Chris