Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Active Members List II: The Return Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 02:22:55 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 73 Message-ID: <3860e396.1061038502@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <836iei$hoq1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <838eak$hoh1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <838ho3$hoh2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <83bsdf$q6e1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Rikki, My name is Steven, not Mr. Osman. I'd expect you to call me Steven, as I am calling you Rikki and not Mr. Prince. My point? I think we're all on a first-name basis that it makes MORE sense to use first name sorting than sirname anyway! Steven p.s. On the "which time to use", use the server time. If you go by the javascript time on the user's machine, everyone will have different times depending on their timezones and whether their computers are properly set up, etc. Even though the server times may be confusing (i.e. I fill it out at 12:00pm and the server then says it was updated at 6:00pm -- because of a timezone issue), we wlil know that if one was updated at 12:50, and another at 12:55, the one at 12:55 was more recent. (without havint to worry about how people's clocks were set up and all). Still having your Netscape problem? On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:23:29 -0000, "Rikki Prince" wrote: >> I think a sort by last edited date would be the best because you usually >> want to see what's newest... but you would need to find someone by their >> name too sometimes. I reckon the least useful would be the Yaroze >username >> because I don't think people tend to know each others usernames (or do >they? >> I could be wrong). > >I'll get it sorted by last date edited, though I'm not sure about sorted by >name, as I've currently only got the field 'Name:', and if I were to sort by >name, it should be alphabetically by surname, so people would have to enter >first and surname separately. Not only is this a pain, in my opinion, it >would make it feel too rigid, which this is not meant to be. > >> And about problem (4) .. I don't think it'll be plenty good enough without >> confirmations via email... a message would be good enough as far as I'm >> concerned. I think email confirmations are so often used by web sites >> because it make's sure the user's email address is correct...but you could >> always ask the user to double check that. > >Good, that's decided, just a confirmation page then. > >> About number (3)... I can only speak for myself but: it wouldn't matter to >> me if non-members could see stuff about me and my work (might be an >> advantage in getting employment -- you never know). I guess the down side >> it that it increases the possibility of people stealing your ideas etc. I >> dare not even suggest having in-group private pages and public pages on >your >> site since you sound like you've got more than enough on your plate >already! > >Thinking about it again, outside access is not really a problem, as the >input form and links would be from my Net Yaroze page anyway. The scripts on >the other server would then just be called from the NY page. I think my main >concern at the moment is allowing re-editing of information, but only by the >person who entered it in the first place. Anyone got any ideas on how to do >this? I could use a really basic password protection on the editing form, >but that's then a pain for the person to remember their password. > >> Sorry I can't help with the rest but I don't know anything about scripts. >> >> Jon Prestidge > >Thanks, I appreciate the time you took to put forward ideas, > >Rikki >