Re: Generalised approach to storing address details
Date: 13 Dec 2006 12:30:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1166041810.189919.234500_at_j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Marshall wrote:
> I frickin' *hate* the tree view in Google Groups. I kill that pane
> whenever I see
> it and just use pure thread view. Thread view rulez; tree view suxorz.
There are advantages and disadvantages. First, you might want to go 3-4
messages back to read the initial context, and you can't navigate along
ancestor messages in linear view. Of course, I'm assuming that it's a
bad manner for a child message to quote parent in all the entirety --
it explodes the content. Second, you have window space at left side
anyway. Finally, you can easily skip long subthreads like this
A
where you don't have big expectations about A and B.
What is needed, is more intelligent forum tree with "intelligently"
exploding and contracting nodes. For example, the "dead" part of the