i just thought it would be nice to be able to see who the last comment is by for each thread / submission on the front page, to help figure out there's been any new activity since you last checked it.

This kind of feature is helpful when you lose track of post counts or something; it would be helpful in determining whether or not you're up-to-date with a thread (also to note: submission and OHC comments are threads themselves).

Well, I gave it a shot, looks a little messy to my eyes. If anyone has any ideas on how to slightly beautify the posted by data, I'm open to suggestions.

what is with the snarky shit from greasfakker and slutvania?!

If you meant the alt attribute of an anchor tag, well, that's meant for an img tag. If you want the 'alt' text to show up when you hover a link, you put it in a title attribute (and can have shotty behavior between browsers). Also, google thinks you're spamming if you repeat link text in too many title attributes. I temporarily have a msg in the title attribute of the front page links for you so you can see how it works. Putting the information in the alt attribute is only useful if you are reading the source.

thank you,
the mngmnt

I never thought about how the title text might be handled by crawlers. Intriguing!

Now I wonder why (X)HTML has never had a generic attribute that browsers could render as a tool tip...

Ja, it's called alt-text often even though it's actually title-text. Alt-text is for when an image can't be loaded/displayed for any reason. And that's it. If you browsed a site in Lynx/Links or turned off images in your browser, any images with an alt-text attribute will show the text instead of some other default placeholder.

Title-text means tooltip.

also, I dunno the details of what is going on, but the title-text is a bit mean spirited ;P

All I know is those two give me grief. I'm sorry BotB isn't perfect, but, please kids, don't talk down to me. I love this community, but it is also a source of some anxiety for me. I'm all for suggestions, but don't give me grief about how I spend my spare time. That's how this site came to be, by spending countless hours bashing my head against the keyboard. I've never claimed to be a good programmer; I get a dose of perseverance when I'm inspired. I won't get inspired when BotBrs get under my skin, either directly or indirectly (when I hear about it from other BotBrs). Some BotBrs are old friends, some are much newer, but don't give me shit unless you know without a doubt that I know you are joking. I am going through a major life changing experience moving to Texas from Michigan, I feel like a fraud at my job hardly getting anything done in weeks, and I'm prone to be a little less patient, a little more likely to get my panties in a bunch when I am addressed in a snide manner.

we all love u pukes!

pukelove7

I don't have a dog in this fight, because alt/title text is broken in my browser anyway. I'm just happy this site works.

Thanks for the support, gang! I've taken the 'offensive' message out of the title attributes. Damns, we need more battles for more entries for more comments and posts!!! :D/

I have an idea on how to circumvent the web crawler situation: insert a span element into the anchor element and give it a title attribute. Would this be scrutinized by Google's web crawler? This is valid in (X)HTML according to W3C's validator. Perhaps the "cutest" way of doing this would be to put the text at the end into such a span.

This "MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS" that's being used (U+22EF) isn't displaying properly on Android (and, if this 'droid n00b needs to be more specific, in Firefox). I was thinking last night the separator and the "last post" could get replaced with a letter from another alphabet or an otherwise well-known symbol to the nerds among us. It worked for scores.

P.S.: I noticed an inconsistency on the site as I was writing this post. In some places entry scores are prefixed with a mu, perhaps only in the Vomitorium, and then sigma is used everywhere else. Ah, old times...

Alright, trying out a subspaced paragraph symbol. Looks better, and has to be more universal with it's ¶ over &#xxxx; style.

I remember using the mu symbol back in the day. Yeah, those are icons if I remember correctly (didn't actually look). Sigma seems to be more appropriate. And, no, I'm not worried about having text in an anchor's title attribute.

Replacing "the last post by" with a symbol is beginning to look good! If I may, may I request a space between the ¶ and the last user who posted?

Yes, mu is in an icon.

At first I thought the pilcrows were mojibake, but then I realized that it's being used as a symbol. Making it a subscript, though, causes the links to lose their "tight" shape; the icons are now off-center and that irks me a little. Maybe shrink the ¶ and center it vertically (I don't know how that works in HTML/CSS these days).

I think the ¶ looks good at it is!! If I were to be really nitpicky, I'd have the whole "x posts etc." on a new line.

We're going to try this look now. Personally, I don't like the number of posts being on it's own line if it can fit on the line before it, but I'm open to more feedback.