LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Actually, the forum archives would be useful to search them locally and offline. Just like the use-livecode mail list. I remember that Sarah posted this tutorial in RevJournal: http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/macaddict-forum-reader.html but I dont know how to

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Searching is only half the problem. The other half is reading what you've found. :) Yes. A typical Google search gives something like this at the top of the page: 2,490,000 results (0.30 seconds). The reason Google works as well as it does

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/11/12 10:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But given the reasonably useful search feature built into the forums, would an alternate search tool provide much more utility than is already there? Searching is only half the problem. The other half is reading what you've found. :) To solve that I

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/11/12 10:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But given the reasonably useful search feature built into the forums, would an alternate search tool provide much more utility than is already there? Searching is only half the problem. The other half is reading what you've

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/11/12 11:43 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The RSS feed the forums puts out is pretty complete, and allows you to view it in the reader of your choice - and of course it's simple to also make your own in LiveCode. I already do use the RSS feed. But if you want to participate, it's pretty

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Monte Goulding
I'd love a way to easily browse and post to the forum on a moble. Is there a mobile theme for the forum we could apply? I think there's some apps but they need a plugin added to the forum. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 12/09/2012,

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 12:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I already do use the RSS feed. But if you want to participate, it's pretty useless. You have to open a web browser, find the post, log in, and reply. Really? Your news reader doesn't display the forum and allow you to post, or it won't properly

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/11/12 4:03 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 09/11/2012 12:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I already do use the RSS feed. But if you want to participate, it's pretty useless. You have to open a web browser, find the post, log in, and reply. Really? Your news reader doesn't display the forum and

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 04:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Yes, it will open a browser if I ask it to. That's an extra step which I need to wait for. Then I have to wait for the forum servers. Then I have to log in and deal with that horrible little text box with all the silly html buttons and gadgets. I

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/11/12 5:36 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Background tabs. Not possible on a mobile browser that I know of. I forgot to mention that if you are not logged in, the login screen dumps you back into the index, so you have to go hunt up the post you wanted to answer. Using an RSS reader on a

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 05:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Using an RSS reader on a desktop machine isn't any easier than just going to the forums in a browser, it's just another layer. You complained about waiting while using your browser and background tabs would certainly help you there in many

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 4:17:40 PM, you wrote: RSS offers some conveniences over simply browsing the forum, but it's a fairly minor thing Well, it's more complicated than that. The rss plugins I use let me see some 10 recent entries. Anything older than that has scrolled off the

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 6:31:19 PM, you wrote: That isn't a failing of RSS, that's a software issue. Yeah, I understand that. Can it be changed in settings? Yes... er... no... you can change the settings, but it doesn't make a difference. I have only a tiny number of feeds