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Thread ID: 21283 2002-06-21 23:41:00 OK post any PressF1 probs bugs here please Biggles (121) Press F1
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56102 2002-07-01 22:12:00 "formatting options" does not open in a new window, it replaces what was being written and offers a close window button.
Using the "close window" button of course also removes the writing that was to be formatted.
Most annoying!
Chris Wilson (431)
56103 2002-07-01 23:02:00 It just worked fine for me. Those pop-ups use JScript. if you have JScript disabled, simply right-click and open in a new window. Biggles (121)
56104 2002-07-01 23:06:00 ok bruce....what do you call a session? and does it involve drinking? tweak'e (174)
56105 2002-07-01 23:21:00 Not while on duty. Technically, a session is (I believe, not an expert on this), any time the browser is frired up. So that if you leave PressF1 and go somewhere else then come back, it is still the same browser session. But if you shut the browser down, then restart, you've got a new session. Session-based cookies (the temp ones) use this, as I understand it. That's why you can log in to a site, go somewhere else, come back and find you are still logged in. I think you can then build in things to cookies so that sessions have a time-out period (inactivity?). But I'm kinda guessing on that.

We looked at trying to improve the red dots so they woulf be more interactive - ie chnage within your browsing session - but it got horrendously complicated so we decided to stick with the default functionality that came with them. There were other things we could do that had a better pay off in terms of usability.
Biggles (121)
56106 2002-07-02 00:03:00 normally what happens is when you brose another site then go straight back to pressf1 the post that you had read before still have the red dot. no real problem, my memory can last a few minutes ;-) however this time its the opposite, new posts didn't have dots, like it thinks i've already veiwed them. is the dots 'controlled' by veiwing main page or change to read after you have veiw that post it self? tweak'e (174)
56107 2002-07-02 01:34:00 I think it would be very nice to have it so that the cookie worked on actual threads that you have accessed. But I presume that it would take a lot of work to get it like that.

What a lot of forums have is a Mark All Read button, that basically resets the cookie (I think). It's really handy becasue it saves having to close the browser all the time.

As for what a session is - it usually involves the passing around of a green substance. Not drinking.
-=JM=- (16)
56108 2002-07-02 01:45:00 The link in the email notification http://pressf1.co.nz has a comma after it causing the link not to work. cadifan (286)
56109 2002-07-02 01:55:00 Test post, ignore at your leisure. james (466)
56110 2002-07-02 01:58:00 Well - just tested it and this is what I got in the email:

Hello Bruce Buckman,

The thread "OK post any PressF1 probs bugs here please" was updated by user "james"!

Check it out at:
pressf1.co.nz

To stop receiving updates about "OK post any PressF1 probs bugs here please" please log back into http://pressf1.co.nz, navigate
to "My Watches" and click "Remove Email Notification" beside "OK post any PressF1 probs bugs here please".

- PC World PressF1 forum

Neither link was broken. In my email the "," at the end of http://pressf1.co.nz is not part of the link. I clicked on both links to check.

What email client are you using and has anyone else seen this?
Biggles (121)
56111 2002-07-02 02:22:00 When I click on the link I get a comma between the nz and /

eg. nz,/
cadifan (286)
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