On 11/27/2011 10:24 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: >> They just don't get what a threaded view is. > > It's not a difficult concept. Maybe there's some web forum > authors who don't get it, but I'm sure a lot of them do. > > And they probably also know why it is a godawful misfeature, > which is why they didn't implement it. > > > Sometimes, people are well aware of a concept, and reject > it on technical grounds or other issues of merit. It really doesn't > help any discussion when you assume the other side are just > a bunch of idiots who obviously haven't seen the light.
That goes both ways. I too greatly prefer threaded views. I use it exclusively when reading all my mail, which also fully (short of buggy mail senders) maintains the 'proper' threading. Clearly this is a matter of personal choice and not something that's clearly right or clearly wrong. Pretending it is just perpetuates the argument. Not allowing the user to choose their preferred navigation / reading / browsing style necessarily restricts the audience to the set of people that prefer the tool author's preferred style. Later, Brad