Folder color when switching areas
Jul 8, 2002 | 11:31 am
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Folder color when switching areas
Not a problem, I'm just curious:
When I enter my first FT area, say FT Miles, and pick a forum, I get yellow folders for those that have been changed since my last visit and blue for those that have not.
After I finish with FT miles and head over to FT travel, all the folders are blue - as if my last visit before this one was a minute ago.
When I return to FT miles the colors work right again.
This is not a big enough annoyance to be worth an effort to fix, but I'd like to know what the logic underneath is that makes it work this way.
When I enter my first FT area, say FT Miles, and pick a forum, I get yellow folders for those that have been changed since my last visit and blue for those that have not.
After I finish with FT miles and head over to FT travel, all the folders are blue - as if my last visit before this one was a minute ago.
When I return to FT miles the colors work right again.
This is not a big enough annoyance to be worth an effort to fix, but I'd like to know what the logic underneath is that makes it work this way.
Jul 10, 2002 | 5:18 am
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It behaves all different kinds of way - but it seems to me that whichever forum you go to first shows correctly and the other shows everything is new.
I've finally adopted a method of going to FT Miles first, since that's where I read the most forums and therefore most want to differentiate new posts. Then when I flip over to FT Travel, I don't care so much that all the folders are yellow, since I only check 3 forums there. What continues to irritate me however, is that if I click on an external hyperlink within a thread on FT Miles, and then go back to the top page on FT Miles, now all the folders are white, indicating no new posts at all, and I can't tell what's new.
FWIW, it's been briefly discussed before:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum72/HTML/000562.html
[This message has been edited by svpii (edited 07-10-2002).]
I've finally adopted a method of going to FT Miles first, since that's where I read the most forums and therefore most want to differentiate new posts. Then when I flip over to FT Travel, I don't care so much that all the folders are yellow, since I only check 3 forums there. What continues to irritate me however, is that if I click on an external hyperlink within a thread on FT Miles, and then go back to the top page on FT Miles, now all the folders are white, indicating no new posts at all, and I can't tell what's new.
FWIW, it's been briefly discussed before:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum72/HTML/000562.html
[This message has been edited by svpii (edited 07-10-2002).]