On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
I'm amazed that there can be an RFC for this. As is evident from the
posts, it's a matter of personal preference and which mail system you use.
There are several. Before the Eternal September, incorrect formatting was
one
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:31 PM, hh h...@livecode.org wrote:
[Richard H. wrote:] Listserves and usenet on the one hand, and web fora
on the other, are completely different creatures.
No, some of the users are. It's sometimes just another kind of thinking,
of being ready or not for changes.
On 27/07/14 18:03, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:31 PM, hh h...@livecode.org wrote:
[Richard H. wrote:] Listserves and usenet on the one hand, and web fora
on the other, are completely different creatures.
No, some of the users are. It's sometimes just another kind of
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com
wrote:
I like the way Gmail compress previously quoted text into a small
ellipsis button; very little wasted screen space, maintains continuity
of the thread very nicely and allows quick access if you need to
refer.
I prefer bottom posting too, but since I started answering occasionally from my
tablet (like now) I've found it's difficult to do. So now my style varies
depending on what kind of electronics I'm using, and I became more lenient
when I see it from others.
I think our new electronics may have
My two cents worth,
I love y'all and want to continue to communicate with you,
but, let's face it, this is a VERY-busy mailing-list.
So busy it is hard to keep-up, or even read most messages anymore.
My webmail-client often puts our mail-list messages in my spam folder.
For actively working on
On 27/07/14 19:25, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I prefer bottom posting too, but since I started answering occasionally from my
tablet (like now) I've found it's difficult to do. So now my style varies
depending on what kind of electronics I'm using, and I became more lenient
when I see it from
On Jul 27, 2014, at 12:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I prefer bottom posting too, but since I started answering occasionally from
my tablet (like now) I've found it's difficult to do. So now my style varies
depending on what kind of electronics I'm using, and I became more lenient
when I
On 7/27/2014, 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote:
You should be careful with the sexual abuse police out and about:
we wouldn't want our stalwart Lady of Xcode going to prison for
bottom posting now would we!
It would likely reduce sexual abuse proclivities for anyone who saw it.
--
Jacqueline Landman
On 27/07/14 21:49, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 7/27/2014, 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote:
You should be careful with the sexual abuse police out and about:
we wouldn't want our stalwart Lady of Xcode going to prison for
bottom posting now would we!
It would likely reduce sexual abuse proclivities for
On 7/27/2014, 1:23 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
An email client should have a preference for setting top or bottom posting in
replies.
It does, and I used to switch it every time I answered on the list. But
it's a pain and requires multiple clicks into K9's dozens of prefs, so I
stopped. I
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote:
A good example of how poor software design interferes with usability. An
email client should have a preference for setting top or bottom posting in
replies
I filed bug report
[#11562437] Reply format encourages
I'm amazed that there can be an RFC for this. As is evident from the
posts, it's a matter of personal preference and which mail system you use.
My personal preference is top posting but if someone prefers bottom
posting, that's fine too/
It's like the whole forum vs email listing. Some people
I totally agree Hermann,
User-list people and forum people tend to be different animals. That is what I
understand after seeing this crop up several times.
Being able to search the knowledge in one place is what I am looking for and
then an integration is better.
See my feature request here:
[Kay wrote:]
... this List is the fastest option I've got... hope you find an advantage in
both.
You also are mixing a purely formal usability and content arguments. You could
use Lynx (Lynxlet on Mac) ...
Who would have thought that Arduino posts would have been categorised under
either
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark side.
But what do you suggest? Merging? Discarding one in favor of the other, to
provide only a single venue for LC discussion?
There was a poll taken a year or two ago about which forum was the most
favorite among the helpers. You have sort of voted for
On 25/07/14 16:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark side.
But what do you suggest? Merging? Discarding one in favor of the other, to
provide only a single venue for LC discussion?
There was a poll taken a year or two ago about which forum was the most
favorite
Hi Craig,
But what do you suggest?
To integrate the use-list into the forum, in its own first level sub-forum.
There is an RSS option available, yields pretty much the same 'news'-effects.
Hermann
On 25 Jul 2014, at 15:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark
: Maiden speech from an old man
On 25/07/14 16:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark side.
But what do you suggest? Merging? Discarding one in favor of the other, to
provide only a single venue for LC discussion?
There was a poll taken a year or two ago about
Richmond,
you certaily don't want that coffee or tea determine who's talking with whom.
Hermann
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On 25/07/14 17:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Richmond.
The only thing that matters to me is that new users be able to find and participate in a
forum of any kind at all. If two separate ones throws a wider net, I am for
it.
That said, I think two forums dilute the interchange of ideas. So I
On 25/07/2014 16:24, Richmond wrote (my emphasis added):
From my point of view the *only thing that is an advantage* of the
Use-List is that messages come sequentially: one doesn't have to keep
hunting through the sections of the Forums to find out
whether new posting are there.
What more
hh wrote:
This is my first speech here
Very glad to see you here. I figured you'd wind up here sooner or later. :)
Let's find a way to come closer in the community, to come together,
right now. Why not make an Insider's corner in the forum?
I'm not opposed, but given that newcomers
, July 25, 2014 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Maiden speech from an old man
On 25/07/2014 16:24, Richmond wrote (my emphasis added):
From my point of view the *only thing that is an advantage* of the
Use-List is that messages come sequentially: one doesn't have to keep
hunting through the sections
Alex Tweedly wrote:
It's beyond me how anyone can be bothered with the forums (which makes
me wonder if what I need for the forums is a Forums for Dummies guide).
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics have posts you haven't
read yet ?
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
If I could solve those questions then I might have a chance of sticking to
using the forums for more than a couple of days. The topic comes up ever so
often, I go look at the forums, see ow much good stuff there is in there,
larry wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I wish RunRev would allow
me to add MY OWN notes to the Dictionary.
I've said it before* and I'll say it again:
I wish anyone here wanted this sort of notebook badly enough to just
write it as a plugin.
I appreciate your submitting an
- Original Message -
From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Maiden speech from an old man
larry wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I wish RunRev would allow
me to add MY OWN notes
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps make
Revolution easier to use.
Now the question I cannot
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps make
Revolution easier to use.
Now the
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps
On 7/25/2014, 11:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
To download for offline reading see Jacque's helpful tip on setting up
email subscription for the entire forum:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202871.html
It's a stopgap solution that I use daily, but even so it doesn't
On 25/07/14 20:47, Richmond wrote:
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about
notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the
Hi Hermann:
Jacque summed up the issue well, as has been done many times. Her points
explain why many of us choose to participate more on this list, rather
than the forums -- none of the reasons have to do with exclusivity or
knowing veteran developers.
What's funny is, forum users have often
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
What more advantage does anyone need ?
It's beyond me how anyone can be bothered with the forums (which makes me
wonder if what I need for the forums is a Forums for Dummies guide).
Yes.
Listserves and usenet on the one
[Alex wrote:] So - is there a beginner's guide?
See below, the short paragraph to RSS Reader. This is faster than your Browser
and faster than your Mailer and answers all your (ironic) questions leading to
this question. After what I've seen from you, I know you'll need at most 5
minutes of
hh wrote:
[Richard H. wrote:] Listserves and usenet on the one hand, and web
fora on the other, are completely different creatures.
No, some of the users are. It's sometimes just another kind of
thinking, of being ready or not for changes.
I like the spirit of adventure in that last line.
[Richard wrote:] ;)
Is the first tutorial of the new WebKit (about that) already work in progress,
or are they waiting until HTML5 is running?
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Friday, July 25, 2014, 3:31:09 PM, you wrote:
[Scott wrote:] It goes both ways. Jacque (and Richard) have
explained how this is sort of possible.
The collected mailing lists are one way but -- for me -- very
nasty. I can read very fast, but it's also very hard to filter out
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote:
I rarely venture onto the web forum, and when I do it's a pretty
shallow overview of recent activity in selected topics.
I want to play with the big kids too. Don't like the web based thing
either.
*--*
*Stephen
I'm with Jacque on this one, i just don't have the bandwidth; neither
mental or telecom.
On a news report last night they said that 50% of the world's
population have never made or received a phone call. Personally I
don't believe that but I can make up a statistic that confirms that
most people
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