Re: Prev/Next Fix
- Posted by Derek Parnell Jul 12, 2008
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I believe the the default first page one sees should be 3439 of 3439 (the newest page).
Newest posts are on page 1 at the top of the page.
You are both correct, depending on one's perspective.
In the common paradigm of a diary, the very first message is put on the first page, and subsequent messages follow on later pages. The final message is on the last page of the diary. This is the way that people generally expect things.
However, web-based forums do not generally use the diary paradigm. The first page is simply the initial page to be shown on screen to the user, and normally this these are the most recent messages, and thus they appear on page 1 of the forum list. Subsequent messages are displayed in later pages with the oldest (the first, time-wise) appears on the last page. The opposite of the diary paradigm.
It is pretty well established that this forum will not be using the diary format and so the first page will display the newest messages.
