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Some popular ideas on the HB are rewarded with gobs of annotations. Since the new stuff is at the bottom, why not add a convenient little bookmark link to the top of each page, to match the "page top" one already in use, allowing users to jump quickly to the bottom?
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you mean a page bottom? where would you put it? XS. |
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blissmiss, you understand what I want. Page up and down on the keyboard aren't quite as good in instances when annotations are extensive and seem to go on for pages. |
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yes but where is it to go? you lazy halfbakers! <sigh> |
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I can see this going between //meta// and //account// on the left navigation bar. |
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I can't. (although I admit I use the page top quite a bit) whoops. |
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po, I don't care where exactly this shortcut link goes, as long as it's at the top left of each page, just as the opposite one is always at the bottom left of each page. Somewhere around the title of the idea or near the croissant or like [ sctld ] said, between the "meta" and "account" areas on the left. |
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I see the page top as a little luxury - I wish you would just give a thought to the mechanics of this place and the work it involves. Let your imagination roam in other fields than the HB. A lot of us quite like it as it is, thank you very much. |
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Ok, ok, I knew it was dangerous to come back into this category, but I don't believe in suppressing ideas. |
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Because this would be a standard bookmark link similar to what's already in use, and would be used on each page, as the one already in use, I thought my posting it for consideration would be pretty harmless. |
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To be clear, I'm not about revamping anything here. I like the site how it is, too. So before I inadvertantly offend anyone else out there, remember this is just an idea - not an order, not a criticism of the way things work. |
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really, po, this is really really easy to implement. I'm not going to suggest that jutta *should* do it, but it's certainly not a bad idea to consider. |
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Well done for being brave enough to come back to this bugbear XSX - not sure that was such a good idea, but there you go... |
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if it is so easy - why so shy to suggest it? |
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And now you're here, you'll be wanting Ctrl-Home to get you back to the top again. |
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Fantastic! That will do nicely. Thanks, JKew. |
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Scrolling to the bottom seems like a rite of passage to me. It *should* be painful because it almost forces you to read what others have written. Really, are you just going to disregard what everyone else has had to say on the subject? |
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On the other hand, maybe we could sweet talk [jutta] into slipping this feature into [Vernon]'s ideas.... |
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It *would* be simple to incorporate, that is true. I dunno, though. I'm a scrollbar yanker myself, so I don't really have a problem. (In fact, until you brought it to my attention, I never noticed the page top link before.) |
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Neither did I. I happen to have a wheel-mouse, so I use the wheel and the scrollbar interchangeably, as well as the cursor keys, page-up, page-down, ctrl-home and ctrl-end (I'm right-handed but use my left hand on the mouse). |
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phoenix, I am absolutely not condoning the practice of disregarding all the annotations between the top and bottom of the page. This feature was suggested to alleviate slow or sloppy scrolling on popular ideas with extreme amounts of annotations AND when checking back for new annotations after having read them all previously. |
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For instance, the "Cream Cheese Rings" idea, which has been online for a long time now, has a lot of annotation attached to it. I recently made a comment and like to check back to see how people responded to what I wrote. The quick jump to the bottom of the page would then come in quite handy to me. |
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As Jkew said, there are ways to do this. In IE, right-click the scrollbar (I found this by accident) and click 'bottom'. |
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Do people not know how the "Home" and "End" keys work?
That said, the Bluetooth keyboard that came with my new
computer doesn't have "Home", "Page Up", "Page Down" or
"End"; and I'm slightly annoyed by that :-( |
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Nice job [a1] - as a cherry on top, I'd like it bound
to the keypress shift+G, vim-style, with gg taking
you back to the top. |
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Ah! Touchscreens. Ignore my last comment; carry on with
the good works. |
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This is an idea I forgot completely. Please note that it was
posted way back in 2002, before I was aware that hitting
the "End" key on the keyboard does this on all web pages.
Let's call this idea "stale". |
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