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| Posted by
| Dave
Australia (93 posts) Bio
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| Wed 01 Jan 2003 03:43 AM (UTC) |
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| A lot of other forum software has Post and Preview options when submitting a post. Better than having to edit your post soon after you submit it incase you make a mistake! Would be a nice addition to an already great, simple piece of software.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Wed 01 Jan 2003 07:56 AM (UTC) |
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| Yes, I suppose. However by doing a post and immediately correcting problems (eg. forgetting to turn on forum codes) you generally will get it done before many people view it, as experience shows that the mail notification can take a while, and you would be unlucky if someone read your message the moment you posted it and before you corrected it.
It would be a reasonably big change, as the preview would have to go somewhere (eg. the database) and all the spots that currently display messages (including searching) would have to ignore preview messages that hadn't yet been approved. |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Dave
Australia (93 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Wed 01 Jan 2003 08:25 AM (UTC) |
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| | The preview would just go to the contents <textarea>, then you could submit or re-preview, so you wouldn't need to store anything. It's actually pretty trivial to do. | | Top |
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| Hanaisse
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| Reply #3 on Sat 05 Sep 2009 02:22 AM (UTC) |
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| Yes, yes, I necro'd a thread from 6 years ago rather than reinvent the wheel :)
I was wondering, with all the changes made to the forum recently, if this would be easier to do now?
I much prefer to preview my responses (check formatting, tags, etc) than edit it five times after the fact. |
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| Posted by
| Dave
Australia (93 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Sat 05 Sep 2009 02:37 AM (UTC) |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Sat 05 Sep 2009 02:43 AM (UTC) |
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Hanaisse said:
I was wondering, with all the changes made to the forum recently, if this would be easier to do now?
It wouldn't be easier, particularly, but I see your point about it. It probably would require a bit of reworking of the way it displays the page, like first displaying all the posts from the database, and then adding the final "work in progress" post, applying forum codes, at the end. |
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