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mik

make 'Icons I Need' the default?

I know which icons I have, particularly the most recent additions. A page listing all of the sets and that could be sorted different ways (like for friends) would be handy, but if I'm going to only see 9 at a time, I'm more interested in the 'icons I need' tab because that will show me if something new has been posted.

Hmm, and if the need list could have some sets tagged as 'want' that would cause them to appear at the top of the list.. but I'm getting side tracked.

Which would you rather have as the default for your own page and/or for others' pages, 'have' or 'need'?

If you know how to do some local tampering to change the default, care to share some suggestions? I can CSS it out of my way but my Ajaxian magic wand is still on order.

--update--

I agree there are more important things, like matthew's point, but the effort involved varies.

E.g. Since the page for any released set already conditionally shows people to send to or request from, a set that's posted but not released yet could have some message indicating 'coming soon but nobody has it yet' message and save some confusion. Writing the message text could take longer than editing the code, unless there's more to it than I'm aware of.

As for the default tab, it is just one extra click (for the first 9 anyway) but since I'd prefer the other tab I'm curious about ways to customize it like I do with CSS. Is it possible? Easy? Too much hassle to bother?

Posted by mik on Jul 14, 2007 in Blab | 7 comments

matthew on Jul 14, 2007

Just remembering which page you're on in the session would be a big improvement. It's really annoying that it keeps jumping back to page one...

dyar on Jul 14, 2007

Doesn't matter either way to me, it's just one click to go to the other screen, but then I have all the Sets. When I go to other peoples pages I prefer to see what that have first. Either way is fine with me, but there are bigger things to be fixed.

rotassator on Jul 16, 2007

Hi mik. This is the HTML that is returned by the Ajax call that happens when you click on your "Icons I need" tab. It's pretty unstyled by itself, but has all the classes et al that hook into the IB stylin'.

You could just save that link to, say, a Firefox bookmark and change the properties to load it in the sidebar. You could then give it some styles using Stylish or by editing your userContent.css :)

mik on Jul 16, 2007

Oh, my userContent.css file is edited alright - I see 8 complete delivery/friend messages at a time in about the same size space at the whole blogs section on my page! But any mucking around I've done with the icons list hasn't been worthy of going into that file so far. I can style it but I can't change which or how much content I get.

But my phenomenally unrewarding tangent has fizzled, thankfully. Rewarding tangents are a whole other thing, it's just hard to tell which kind it'll be until you're in the middle of it. Saturday was a 1-day abyss - just enough to make me really glad it was only 1 day!

Wile on Jul 16, 2007

I wrote an HTML/Ajax page that can do that.But it only works under IE 6 and 7. maybe IE 5.5 also, but not tested. If you whisper me your email, I can send it to you. I have in project to make some IB add-ons such like this feature on my website, but I have other priorities right now ...

mik on Jul 16, 2007

Are the chefs planning an API?

Wile on Jul 16, 2007

don't know, but I used AJAX and DOM to parse th infos and render them ... this could be great to have something such as web services to interact with outside tools ...