"Brad Roberts" <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1148.1322462368.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > 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
There is certainly nothing wrong with a 5 year old using Legos to create a "web forum". The results, though, are apt to be, well, like a web forum! I'm all for that: let kids have their play area, but in the basement with the door closed please, for I have work to concentrate on and don't like have to yell, "Why don't you kids go play in the traffic already!". Abe ;)