Well short was probably a bad term.. It's not SMS. Here's a great example of what I'm talking about.
http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/jasonallen19/linkexample.jpg 2nd to last message you can see the link is abbreviated. If I click on that message, it takes me to the message chain between that guy and myself. And in that chain, messages are fully displayed, and that image is displayed as an image. The problem is that in the summary, I want to remove all formatting, and if an image is included in the message, it would be displayed. Can't display an image. And the message summary is all within an <a href=""> itself, so I can't have embeded link tags.. If that makes sense. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > If this system uses "short" messages, then what's so bad about listing > the entire message on each line of your "summary" interface? > > If your concern is for the amount of space this would consume on the > client device, then you could restrict the display to the "first x" > dimension by using a style declaration (and the overflow property) on the > container. > > This would keep the message in it's native form, reduce the amount of > second-guessing logic that the server would have to perform, and let you > adjust the preview space along with all the other style elements for the > given device type (browser, mobile, etc). > > You could even perform some js/css slight of hand, to have the entire > message "fly-out" when one hovered over the preview. > > At it's very core, it seems to me like you're performing stylistic work > here. Export the work to the client and use CSS whenever possible. > > Al > > > > On 11/17/2011 8:26 AM, Jason King wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> This is for a messaging app. >> >> When users are viewing their inbox, I want a summary of the message to be >> displayed. Since this is more of a short messaging system, not an email >> client, I'm doing away with 'subject' and just having a message. >> >> (snip) >> > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: > https://plus.google.com/**115990347459711259462<https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462> > > http://groups.google.com/**group/openbd?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en> > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
