On Aug 1, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the features of a Mail User Agent is to track what was read or not.
It should be straightforward to track “artifacts seen” on a per-user basis, then tag the HTML block-level elements when rendering the page so that the skin can style the elements appropriately. The skin could, for example, overlay 5% transparent black over all posts the user has already seen, so that the new (not-yet-seen) elements are in a higher contrast coloring. This could extend to the timeline as well. (That’s why you do this with transparent tinting over the existing coloring, by the way, rather than hard-code a pale gray background: because you can’t easily predict what the existing background color will be, and you wouldn’t want a bunch of nearly-identical CSS rules even if you could predict each background color in advance.) Since this solution is all-CSS, you’d then have the freedom to do the styling differently if you prefer. You could bold the subject line of threads that haven’t been opened, etc. You’d be limited only by your CSS fu. > And also many MUAs collapsed > older parts of the thread already read, while still allowing to re-expand > them, > as the user's choice. That may be possible in CSS as well. If not in pure CSS, then in CSS + JS for sure. All that’s needed are suitable styles on the block-level elements. > Some MUAs (GMail) use a strict time-based > ordering of the post, I’d be careful using Gmail as a comparison here, since it isn’t so much threaded as clumped, which makes it difficult to compare 1:1 to a threaded forum system like this new Fossil Forums feature. Still, I agree with the basic idea you’re expressing here, which I think I can express more simply: thread titles in the top-level /forum should be ordered by the date of the most recent post in the thread, not by the date of the first post. If a new post is made to an old thread, the whole thread pops to the top of the list. > Could a strict "flat" time-based ordering > be available, as an alternate view, replacing the in-reply-to nesting with > simply a link > to the replied-to post? You get that via /timeline if you show events of “Any Type” or “Forum”. If an alternate view is provided, then I guess some people will like a Gmail-like clumped view, but personally, I think that’s only useful on mobile, where horizontal screen space is especially precious. On a desktop browser, give me real threading any day. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
