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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg 
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recently today's topics has been changed so that the threads open up in new windows instead of just the same one... I think you did this because someone wanted the balladeer button to work for today's topics, but it didn't? (even though that button is kinda pointless, there's always a link on the page back to that forum... I use the one above and to the right of the poem, "sanctuary - poetic haven - (topic)," where "poetic haven" is a link back to poetic haven, for example... but I digress...) anyways... I've noticed that topics from some of the forums pop up in their own windows, like Open and Teen... and yet, other forums, like Deputy Mod Squad and, as I recently learned, Adult, don't pop up in a new window - they remain in the same one. Well it gets pretty confusing and frustrating having to remember whether I hit "back" or "close" on my browser when I'm done reading something. I either end up closing my only window, or flooding my taskbar with multiple windows... which gets kind of annoying. My suggestion is that maybe all of the forums should just do either one or the other. Is there some reason it's like this? Enlighten me if there is. Parasite |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
quote:nope... always been that way.  |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
really? I remember a thread that made him change it that way, I think... let me see if I can find it? or maybe I'm confused |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
/pip/Forum17/HTML/000093.html#3 I win, Chris  |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
DM, SM and Adult are password protected forums therefore when accessing them from Today's Topics, they don't open another page. |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I'll be darned. You are right. (You win! lol) Well then, maybe I can try to be right on something else: The reason it would open a new window for the some forums and not others is because the ones it doesn't are the private, password protected forums. I've assumed that this has to do with security, though I can't be sure. It's something that i've just grown used to and don't really think about... if I'm in a private forum, I know I need to either hit the back button or Today's Topics again, rather than close it out. I do agree though that all should be the same... of course that will probably mess me up too, rofl. However, Ron is a great enabler to my laziness and I'm sure something will change with the next update. *grin* |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
yeah - what Sharon said. |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
although - another rambling thought - it wasn't recent... in Internet Years, the time between now and September 2001 is like decades in RL.  |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
OKAY... all evening Today's Topics has been, for me at least, going back and forth between all-popups and no-popups... I first noticed that Open topics would open in the same window, then that they wouldn't anymore... then that they would again, and now that they won't anymore... Are you having fun with me or something, Ron?  |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
ah - that's something i discovered as well... today's topic uses a named window. if you close the initial window, then go to today's topic from one of the open windows... clicking on a link will then be telling it to use THAT window to open |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
ahhh I see, Chris... well that's good to know, at least now the most I'll ever have is two windows open. I don't mind having a decoy window if it means navigating is easier. Thanks. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Well I have solved at least part of my confusion now, as I keep getting lost period in a multitude of bars on the bottom and then closing the wrong ones. I shall be more careful. |
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