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Here's a screenie of the bookmark system I'm working on.

It's works in a similar way to chromes menus only this is accessed from the linkify icon in the top right of the address bar.

The icons are mostly self explanatory...
- pencil icon is edit (rename the bookmark).
- bin icon is delete.
- the eye icon is goto the page you last viewed (continue where you left off).
- the arrow icon takes you to the last page.
- and clicking the link takes you to the first page of the thread.

Anyway that's the basic interface. Once a link is clicked it closes and opens the new page. So the bookmarks interface isn't persistent (same as chome menus), that probably wont change (a few reasons I'll go into later if needed). I'll probably add some options such as open in new tab and maybe some other stuff I haven't yet thought of.

I'm not sure about what limit I should put on bookmarked threads. Once the interface is full a scrollbar will appear so you are not limited to the space in the tabs. I still have quite a bit to do and it changes every time I work on it, but this a good indication of how it'll shape up

HTTP://i.imgur.com/VUZGdEG.png

Body btw said :
Yea, I was getting worried about how quiet it's been I'm excited for Christmas but unfortunately I'll be on even less for that than I was for Halloween
Not sure what I'll be doing over Christmas, hopefully it'll be a quite one

22-Nov-2015 04:27:55 - Last edited on 22-Nov-2015 08:54:14 by Indecent Act

Hiya Rowley

Left or right menu position I can do, but the icon will always be in the top right. So it may feel odd clicking on the far right to open a menu on the far left. The mouse cursor wont snap to the menu so it'll be a bit of jumping around. But that's not a problem to make optional.

Displaying all at once brings a few issues. Firstly you could easily end up with multiple scroll bars on the one interface (really bad UI design). There are some other things too as the behaviour within each of the tabs is not the same, this makes things counter intuitive and messy when all displayed together. There are some big advantages (from a code perspective) not displaying everything at once, and it'll require (in part) writing two bookmark systems). I really don't want to right two different interfaces if I can help it.

I need a one size fits all system, and now more than ever I need things separate. The watch list needs some extra space because I hope to include (optional) notifications in that tab.

Also I need the luxury of extra space in the tabs. If the bookmark system's features grow during development (that usually happens) I need to be able to accommodate that. Right now there are lots of unknowns.

I realise some of us have lots of screen real-estate. That screenie in my last post is on the lowest res monitor I have (been lots of linkify testing on that screen). Tbh my biggest issue is making sure low res and/or small browser windows work.

I guess what I'm saying is the tabs give me room to grow, work on all screen sizes and help keep things tidy (though tidy is subjective). Really not going to commit on this one, just too early and depending on how things get built into the system could mean it becomes impossible later.

I will keep this in mind though and give it some more thought

But....
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23-Nov-2015 02:43:24 - Last edited on 23-Nov-2015 02:51:17 by Indecent Act

26-Nov-2015 07:12:00

Lust said :
Semi off-topic
Picked up elite dangerous while its on sale atm
In time for planetary landings coming soon-ish
Nice I hope you enjoy!

I'm looking forward to planetary landings. Though I haven't been on ED for a while. I had a HOTAS (fancy throttle and a phallic looking stick) on loan from my sister's boyfriend, but I had to return it. Now I can't play without it.

I might treat myself to a nice controller before the expansion comes out as I'm in deep space atm and it will take me a week just to get back to populated space. No way I can do that journey with just a keyboard and mouse.

I miss not having the throttle and stick on my desk, I kind of liked the spaceship cockpit look (though my friends were like " Why do have that on your desk and wtf is it? &quot .

While playing ED on one screen and watching Firefly/Star Trek on the other screen I felt as though I was thousands of light years from Earth

27-Nov-2015 10:48:47 - Last edited on 27-Nov-2015 11:22:18 by Indecent Act

Amaethwr said :

Sad times Zigzagpaul's farming scientist thread was lost.. There was something like 145 pages when I'd last seen

I know I realised it was lost a while ago

I wish I had known before hand as it would have been good to archive it.

One day I went to give it a bump and it wasn't there, then I looked on my profile and it was gone. I was surprised as it seemed to have just faded away without any warning. I had no idea it was heading towards page 50.

30-Nov-2015 00:30:04