fpgroups.com: Revised chat room

[fp at casabellagallery.com]

Mark posted:

> 
> You'll never BELIEVE what fp at casabellagallery.com said here...:
> > I think I should have not posted original post about the release
> > of the chat room, it was too early.  The idea was such in my head 
> > that even at its early stage I looked at it in a way I hoped you
> > guys/gals would.  That was my mistake and I've learned from it 
> > (I hope)!
> > 
> > I have made lots of changes and would like to invite/ask you to 
> > check it out and please tell me if this is 
> > a) Fair progress but not there
> > b) Good progress but not there
> > c) Great progress, could be used as is
> 
> B.9.  Great Progress, could -almost- be used as-is.  
> 
> The real outstanding problems yet are:
> 
> 1) Need submission trigger on return in text entry so you don't have to
> click or tab out to hit enter.
> 

Will do tonight!

> 2) A name should be required to submit a message.  We get any troublemakers
> in there, you'll get 7 people not using a name at all and you won't know
> who's doing what.
> 

I already fixed this ... all it took was one line of code (well, more like
1/10 of line of code).  

> 3) You're not urlencoding your data, thus dropping things like "one & two"
> half on the ground, amongst other problems this could lead to.  You want to
> use escape(varname) when assembling your query string, concatenating it
> with + operands.
> 

Will "try" to get this done tonight as well.


> Other than that, far better.  I'd have made the Present Chatters about 10
> high so you easily get the idea it's a list.  At least 5.  It can scroll,
> it just needs to make its presence known.  If it was there last night when
> you asked me to look, I entirely missed it until today when I had another
> look around for it.
> 
> Much improved.  Just some stuff that needs to be worked out.

Yeah, the user list was there.  Actually, I have it so that it shows in every
page, that way you do not have to enter the chat room to know chatters are
active.

I need to work the logic to 'kill' chatters that have gone inactive for awhile.
I feel that this logic and enforcing "duplicate" user names are closely related,
I chose to leave them for last.  I concentrated on the problems you brought to
my attention on the very first post (yes, I did pay attention).  The fact that I
asked you to look at it a couple of other times proves that  8)

I am very exited about this - I can't wait to see you guys actively chatting in
the fpgroups.com chat room.

Regards,


Jose Lerebours