On 01/27/2013 06:50 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Alternatively, you could right-click the post title to obtain a
canonical link to the post, which should work with all view modes
(unless you are using some kind of web browser which ignores anchors in
redirects).
It is documented here:
http://forum.dlang.org/help#canonical
(If you are using a web browser which does not understand anchors in
links, please scroll down to the section "Canonical links".)
I didn't understand this at first because I tried to do it from the
search results that google gave me and Murphy's hand was covering the
documentation link in your post when I read it ;)
I understand what that is now.
In fact, there's an (undocumented?) feature that allows me to do what I
want: if I left-click on a post's title, it will bump my browser to the
"canonical" link, which will show it in thread context if threaded view
is my current setting.
That's good for me, personally, but I wonder if it would still be a good
idea to have a "view this post in threaded mode" option tucked away
somewhere just to be very explicit that it is possible to do that. I
didn't actually expect clicking on post title to do that.
Also, there's another problem I still see that the "view post in
threaded mode" link would solve:
If I'm in basic mode and I want to view a post in thread context, then I
have no way to do this in one click, it seems. If I click "View mode:
threaded" then I will lose the post and it will select for display
whatever post happened to be at the top of the page in basic mode. If I
click on the post title, it will do nothing because I'm already at that
post and already in the same mode, which is basic. Instead I have to
save the URL, click threaded mode, go back to the original URL now that
I'm in threaded mode, then click a post title, and I can get a thread
context, and that operation was side-effectful because I'm in threaded
mode now.
If you read all this and take it into consideration, I'll be quite
thankful.
I'm starting to feel like my reluctance to use the otherwise really good
forum interface might stem from a single wart or misunderstood UI
element like this.
