h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's weird. It works for me

Jab, what browser are you using? The "My Conversations" link in Plain works for me in both IE and Mozilla.

The popups don't work on the STB.

Does anyone know what expert mode does?

It's in alabaster anyway

Expert mode gives you the tree gadget

What's the tree gadget? The page thingy?

If you've got it turned on, it is that diamond shaped tree of blobs that sits in every posting in a thread. It helps you navigate as to who is saying what and to whom.

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I see

Thought Expert was for Brunel, support for a Tree Gadget?

You can select Expert even in the Plain skin. Does not mean anything will happen.

Right STB, Browser, It's a Pace product, so they have a website. Not sure but the word's Liberate and Mozzila come to mind. I need to check.

Checking... I have just been reading about which browser to use on a PC. Opera 7.01 http://www.opera.com Then there is Slimbrowser http://www.flashpeek.com

So hootoo only works with IE, Netscape, of a set version eh?

Is it not be good practice to test our GuideML code on every Skin option?

Before going back to Plain.

Expert is the default only with the Brunel skin. It is available (and highly recommended) with all of the others.

As to browser choice, well h2g2 does its best to be available to all. And I reckon does better than most of BBCi by catering for webTV/digibox users with the Plain skin. But bottomline is 90%+ of users are running with M%'s IE, so that is going to be the focus for in-house development work.

Jab, Hootoo works on everything I've tried; just one particular skin doesn't work with one particular (old and extremely crufty) version of Netscape. Personally, I recommend Mozilla if you're tight-fisted, or Opera if you're willing to pay a little for your browser. The ad in the free version of Opera takes up too much of the screen space, and it's distracting at times, too.

Jim, there's a recurring (and irritating) problem with the "My Conversations" pop-up from Plain; I don't know if it affects other skins...

Even after you've refreshed "My Conversations" it's often the case that the "Last reply" link for a forum, while showing the correct time next to it, actually links to the wrong posting, sometimes a couple of pages before the most recent reply.

Have you marked those conversations as 'read'? i.e. are the highlighted or not?

If they are not highlighted, the list remembers when you last read the conversation, and (using the date= parameter) will show the page containing the next post after the last time you read. If you mark the posts as read, it updates the list to the current time, and will always show you the most recent posts.

So, if this is what you're seeing, this behaviour is by design. Just hit the 'Mark All Read' link to reset the dates on all the conversations and you'll then get the latest posts.

Ah, OK. That's what's happening... My bad.

It's a feature, just not quite intuitive...

For example, I posted to a thread 7 minutes ago, an action which marked the thread as "read". 2 minutes ago there was a reply, but clicking on that reply takes me to a page where all the postings are at least 12 hours old...

it's, try flashpeak with an 'a'... Mag's *mutter*

Jim: After you added the Style option, this 'wrong place' stared to happen on STB (Plain yay). But not before, seems to be working as it first did now though?

Peet Click the Conversation List, then the last post, to avoid being thrown back into the mist of time

Ok... now I'm confused.

I always just click on my last posting so that I'll have a frame of reference... especially if the convo has skipped over to the next LED since I was last there so I have a clue what I said the last time I posted there. (backlog junkie) There are convos that the first time I see them show up on my page, they already have several LEDs of postings (because it may have started since the last time I was on, and been very active during that time). I find it annoying to click on the latest post and only then find out I have a bunch of backlog to read.


Therefore, I don't click on mark all read because then I don't know which ones I've actually replied to. Then the latest post will only take me to the last page, even if it's been days since I've posted on it.

What does it do to subsequent pages of the pop-up convos if I click on that? Does it mark them all as read, even though there are some that I haven't read in weeks or months?

Skins, and STB (Digibox).

Logged-on with a PC, IE 6. The CSS works fine, as you would expect. Just the darn STB, that don't play ball.

So what was the final outcome of this? A legue table? Or did plain just win, being the best skin and all

I think goo is winning, but there isn't a real outcome.

Jim's just tweaked "Plain"; all the bits that were hardcoded as black have suddenly reappeared.