None too difficult. Kanji.Koohii: Tag title should do the trick. Don't think I can force italic script in titles though.

Hover over the tab title and it will appear as a pop-up balloon help (or however that yellow box is called nowadays). I guess that's what dingomick thought of using. Also the tab currently open will have its title displayed in full on the window title bar.

Woelpad, could you make the info more compact by removing the quotes and the second keyword. For example, instead of

俊 "sagacious" | sagacious 1014

Could it just be:

俊 sagacious 1014

Even better:

1014 sagacious 俊

The last option is most ideal; it orders the info by usefulness. The reason I thought this tweak would be useful is because stories require {##} to reference the word. So a quick glance at my tab to see the number and word is best.

The hover option works fine, but defeats the purpose of displaying the info to avoid extra clicks in the first place.

BTW, I use Tab Mix Plus for all my tabbing needs. It's the extension Firefox based all their 1.5 tab browsing updates on. It includes an option for minimum and maximum tab widths. I've adjusted it to better accomodate the info.

Last edited by dingomick (2006 December 29, 4:19 am)

Thanks for the work guys. Fabrice's current display is exactly what I imagining.

Don't worry, I'm sure I'll have more suggestions in the future (intentionally fail cards option, hint hint...)

The same reversal logic could also be applied to the forum pages, whereby I'd add the forum title in the middle, as in:

Suggestion: Page Title | Feedback | Reviewing the Kanji Forums

for the same reasons as given for the study part.

Added a fix for the overlapping pencil problem, and changed the script title, so if you have already downloaded this script, you might need to remove the older Tag title script from your list of Greasemonkey scripts (under Tools -> Greasemonkey -> Manage User Scripts).  No such measure needed in Opera.

If you create dedicated subforum, prohibit users to create threads there and create all threads as sticky (until resolved), allowing users to add comments in them, that should do the trick.

Ah, you're catching up

From the Very minor forum rendering issue thread, dealing with the pencil problem:

ファブリス wrote:

Okay, that's fixed. Actually it needed fixing in the forum code.

One thing I can throw out then, although there's no need to redownload the script, as the fix is no longer triggered (it looks for "postedit" elements, not for "icon postedit"). Remains inverting and extending the forum title and I can throw the whole script out.

ファブリス wrote:

Just checked with the awesome web developer extension Firebug.

Looks a lot cooler than the DOM inspector I was (hardly) using up to now. Thanks for the tip.

One thing that had bugged me a little for far too long is that in order to reference to another forum message you need to find the corresponding pid, normally by viewing the page source and browsing for the correct message. All too cumbersome, so I've adapted the Tag forum title script to do the hard work for me.

The msg tag accepts as its parameter 2 numbers separated by a dot. The first is the thread id, which corresponds to the id parameter in a thread's url. The second is the reply number of the message you want to refer to. You can omit the first number, in which case the id for the current thread is taken; or the second number in which case the link will point to the end of the thread. Filling in 0 for the reply number will simply display the thread's first page.

On clicking Preview or Submit, the msg tags are replaced by url tags. If you made an error (a non-existent reply# for example), the tag will remain as is, though the ending tag will be replaced by /url (no need to change it back).

Example:

[quote][msg=1338.27]Smart move[/msg], Thora.[/quote]

which translates to:

[quote][url=http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=1338&p=2#p17159]Smart move[/url], Thora.[/quote]

or when displayed:

Smart move, Thora.

I see, the blue time stamp next to the reply# is actually an anchor containing the url for that message. Not the most obvious place, but still embarassing. I'll purge the script, but would suggest that you add a comment in something like the BBCode help page to make people aware of this feature.

Last edited by woelpad (2008 March 31, 10:23 pm)

I know it's not very clear.

I prefer not to change the forum codebase, as it's really a secondary project. Whenever PunBB has a security update I have to manually add changes because my version is modified. The more I change it the more work in updates. At the same time PunBB 1.3 is currently in beta so like I said before, I'm hopeful that they've addressed the obvious things that were mentioned like tracking of new posts. Unfortunately the PunBB site itself is not well documented, I've just spent 20 min trying to find a feature list for the 1.3 version without luck.

Thora wrote:

I've wondered why selecting a thread from Recent Topics doesn't take us to the last post in the thread?

Same here, you have to click the small time stamp to get to the last post.

Ahh, I understand now. The Recent Topics takes you to the newer posts (action=new in the URL). If the "new posts" didn't time out on you yet, PunBB will take you to the first post in that topic that you (presumably) didn't read yet.