(also mailed directly to [email protected])

Webmaster,

I, and many with me, use the Flat By Date view to easier

catch replies to the not quite recent postings. But when

one is only interested in *one* product (in my case

OpenInsight), the Flat By Date view appears so clogged up

with irrelevant postings (i.e the postings for the other

products) that, at least to me, much of the advantage is

lost.

I feel certain that your database and query methods can

support both Flat By Date on a certain product and many

other combinations. What if you changed your Online

Discussion options to the following?:

    (radio button group:)
    By Date (default)
    By Author
    Flat by Date

    (radio button group:)
    OpenInsight
    Revelation ViP/DX
    Network Products
    Revelation Reporter
    Advanced Revelation
    All Products (default)

    (button:)
    Go!

- Oystein -

Also, is there a reason that Flat by Date links won't indicate as already viewed even though I've seen these messages already from the OpenInsight Specific page?

Thanks,

[email protected]

SRP Computer Solutions

Don,

If you look closely at the URLs you'll probably

find they're different, even if they link to the

same posting. I discovered this a few weeks ago

with the URLs in OpenInsight Specific view

and the URLs in the thread overview at the

bottom of each individual posting. The difference

wasn't more than some hex string sometimes being

in uppercase and sometimes in lowercase. That's

enough for your browser to regard them as different.

(And checking again today I see that the difference

is much greater now.)

When I discovered this I notified the Webmaster.

After that I observed that changes were being made

but matters only got worse (like for some time

author names in the thread overviews were in

lowercase).

I cannot understand it's so difficult to fix this

and I agree with you it's a nuicance. I'm sure

a lot of time is wasted checking postings twice.

And with the congested Internet (or perhaps it's

just the trans-Atlantic connection) I sure waste

a lot of time.

- Oystein -

We realize that some browsers do not indicate in the views if you have read a document by linking via the thread map in the documents. Oystein is correct; the capitalization is different depending on where the URL is and some browsers (such as Netscape) don't reflect the difference in the "read" status. We have tried to fix this, however, Domino does not generate URLs in a consistent manner. This seems to be a Domino (or Netscape, depending on who you talk to) limitation, at least for the time being. I have noticed that this is not a problem in Microsoft Explorer.

When we redesigned this forum, we addressed this issue by including the product name right in the Flat by Date view. This enables one to skim the view and click only on those postings that are about the product(s) one is interested in.

I have noticed that this is not a problem in Microsoft Explorer.

FWIW, IE 3.02 is all I've been using for sometime now and I've noticed the problem.

[email protected]

SRP Computer Solutions

Jennifer,

]

You're right. I've compared Netscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0, and the latter performs better with your web site on at least three different points:

- The above (viewed links consistently highlighted).

- Copy and Paste from web documents. When you copy in Netscape you get this annoying string of 20 spaces at the beginning of each line.

- In IE the control where one enters the text for a new posting wraps lines. With Netscape it just scrolls until you hit the Enter key. It feels as if you're back in time to before word processors arrived.

(Note I'm not saying who's fault the problems are. For all I know the last problem, for instance, could be because of non-standard HTML codes.)

- Oystein -

Don,

]

If you've seen my reply to Jennifer you know that I haven't got the problem in my IE 3.0. Maybe it's a setting somewhere.

- Oystein -

The links are not highlighted in my copy of IE 4

Bob Watson

Robert,

I just checked my IE 4.0 (I run both Netscape 3.0, IE 3.0 and a pre-release of IE 4.0) and unfortunately it's the same here. And I haven't been able to find a relevant setting in IE.

Does anybody know if there is a setting? I cannot find anything in View | Options. I cannot find any ini file for IE. I checked my Win95 Registry and found a lot of settings for IE (more than in View | Options) but nothing for case sensitivity of viewed links.

- Oystein -

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