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Intrigued by a vB feature
« on November 12th, 2011, 08:38 PM »
Yeah, this is something that doesn't happen to me often, I have little real love for vB, but today I encountered a feature that really intrigued me.

Specifically, in a vB forum, if there's a board that has unread posts, you can double click on the icon for it to become marked read, AJAXively.

Oddly, there are only two vB forums I frequent, one of them I never need to use that (because I keep up with all boards), the other I need to use it all the time as there are so many boards I'm just not interested in.
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Re: Intrigued by a vB feature
« Reply #2, on November 13th, 2011, 06:39 PM »
double click? We can do it with one in addition to a pop-up window to confirm if you want to mark it as read. ;)
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Re: Intrigued by a vB feature
« Reply #3, on November 13th, 2011, 06:42 PM »
There's nowhere in Wedge to do that at present... I'm not sure what you're referring to, actually.

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Re: Intrigued by a vB feature
« Reply #4, on November 13th, 2011, 06:42 PM »
I've honestly felt like every POST or MODERATION action should be done ajax without having to re-load the page.

It looks cool, saves time and saves alot of wasted queries and bandwidth.
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Re: Intrigued by a vB feature
« Reply #5, on November 13th, 2011, 07:06 PM »
I see the logic however there needs to be non AJAX equivalents for accessibility reasons.
Re: Intrigued by a vB feature
« Reply #6, on March 10th, 2012, 01:30 PM »
Bump for justice.

Should we have more AJAX stuff? What would people like to see? (I'm sensing people are going to point to the flow in XenForo at this point, though honestly it doesn't 'flow' much better than SMF/Wedge to me)

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