Thanks to the generosity of Sean Forman, mastermind of Baseball Primer, and the expertise of BB reader Gwyn Price, I am pleased to announce a new "feature" -- that's how Microsoft spells "bug" -- which will make my time in the Batter's Box (and yours, I hope) more enjoyable.
In Netscape (Mozilla) -- but so far, not in Internet Explorer -- the linked word "Comments" will change colour when you have clicked there. But how do you know when a "new" comment has been posted? Until now, you couldn't tell, but using something called a dummy anchor in HTML, Gwyn has magically made the "Comments" link change back to "unvisited" when there's a post you haven't viewed yet, from that PC. I repeat, it does not work (yet) in the World According to Gates, but perhaps someone knows an obscure IE settings change they will share with us. I haven't tried it in Opera or other browsers, but I'm now using Netscape, mostly because this trick is so cool, and I recommend you make the switch.
It will be very helpful, and may keep threads active longer; you will be able to scroll down the entire main page and easily see where "new for you" comments have been posted. It will definitely save time; I've been relying on my faulty memory -- have I read the 26th post in that thread? -- but now, I can skip articles where the link shows "visited", and locate comments I haven't seen before and might otherwise have missed.
Gwyn is a technical guru, who has accepted an invitation to join BB in that capacity. He's working on improving the Hot Topics list to be more current and actually useful, and something called an RSS feed, that will generate some new traffic to the site. We are grateful he volunteered to help.
In Netscape (Mozilla) -- but so far, not in Internet Explorer -- the linked word "Comments" will change colour when you have clicked there. But how do you know when a "new" comment has been posted? Until now, you couldn't tell, but using something called a dummy anchor in HTML, Gwyn has magically made the "Comments" link change back to "unvisited" when there's a post you haven't viewed yet, from that PC. I repeat, it does not work (yet) in the World According to Gates, but perhaps someone knows an obscure IE settings change they will share with us. I haven't tried it in Opera or other browsers, but I'm now using Netscape, mostly because this trick is so cool, and I recommend you make the switch.
It will be very helpful, and may keep threads active longer; you will be able to scroll down the entire main page and easily see where "new for you" comments have been posted. It will definitely save time; I've been relying on my faulty memory -- have I read the 26th post in that thread? -- but now, I can skip articles where the link shows "visited", and locate comments I haven't seen before and might otherwise have missed.
Gwyn is a technical guru, who has accepted an invitation to join BB in that capacity. He's working on improving the Hot Topics list to be more current and actually useful, and something called an RSS feed, that will generate some new traffic to the site. We are grateful he volunteered to help.
