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Scripting New interface issues

Author:Dru Oja Jay
Posted:6/3/1999; 2:36:03 PM
Topic:Scripting New interface issues
Msg #:6993
Prev/Next:6992 / 6994

I just got done reading today's Davenet, and was thinking of commenting on it, when I noticed that there is no link to the discussion group. I had to go back to the scripting news web site, click on the cow skull, and then check through the topics to see if anyone had written anything already.

This seems counterintuitive.

All the pieces are there, but they need to be closer together. How about this, Dave: every time you write a Davenet piece, have Frontier start a new thread automatically and link to it at the bottom of the piece. That saves me a lot of clicks and page renderings (still pretty slow in Netscape 4 mac) and makes it easy for readers to write feedback and read that of others. Plus it's in context.

I have also noticed that there is a topic generated for each day's scripting news outline. Is there any reason you couldn't put a link to this in the header for each day's news? You can only benefit from this kind of contextual links.

For a more complete version of the ideas behind this, please take a second look at fip. It seems to be exactly what you've been talking about in terms of collaborative writing, and talks about context, too.

cheers!

Dru

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