Forums - display Post details setting?
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Is there a way of setting the 'Details' (post author and date/time) to display automatically (and if not could there be?) I very often want to see the username of the person who's written the message or how long ago it was, and it's a main to have to manually use the mouse every time to click the disclosure triangle (and it's not as if it takes up very much extra space...)
This is due to the way that the newest version of Chrome (12) handles the html5 <details> tag. I agree that this is annoying and I've asked the C5 team to change the way their forum html is outputted. In the meantime, there's nothing you can do about it other than use a different browser besides Chrome.
I had though this was a site decision, glad to know its a chrome bug
but Ill have to put up with it firefox is still till bloated for me and until I can bloat the crap out of chrome its speed still pushes my buttons :)
but Ill have to put up with it firefox is still till bloated for me and until I can bloat the crap out of chrome its speed still pushes my buttons :)
I'm in the same boat -- it's really annoying but not as annoying as using a slower browser :)
Just in case you're interested, it's not actually a browser bug but rather a "feature" (the html5 "details" tag is defined as content that appears "collapsed" and that the user can click on to expand). I just think that because of this definition of the <details> tag, the C5 forum should *not* be using it in their markup.
Here are some links about it:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-details-element...
http://www.quackit.com/html_5/tags/html_details_tag.cfm...
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/html5-summary-and-details/...
http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-details-jquery...
Just in case you're interested, it's not actually a browser bug but rather a "feature" (the html5 "details" tag is defined as content that appears "collapsed" and that the user can click on to expand). I just think that because of this definition of the <details> tag, the C5 forum should *not* be using it in their markup.
Here are some links about it:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-details-element...
http://www.quackit.com/html_5/tags/html_details_tag.cfm...
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/html5-summary-and-details/...
http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-details-jquery...
I just thought Andy was rolling out some useless UI change to the
forums first time I saw the collapsed details link..
Think of it this way, isn't it nice to not judge a post by a handle
and timestamp? I mean isn't the whole promise of digital communication
about the egalitarian nature of it? A post is only as valuable as the
content in it, and that type of thing.. right?... no?... oh..
best wishes
Franz Maruna
CEO - concrete5.org
http://about.me/frz
forums first time I saw the collapsed details link..
Think of it this way, isn't it nice to not judge a post by a handle
and timestamp? I mean isn't the whole promise of digital communication
about the egalitarian nature of it? A post is only as valuable as the
content in it, and that type of thing.. right?... no?... oh..
best wishes
Franz Maruna
CEO - concrete5.org
http://about.me/frz
Nope. Unfornately it is not a bug.
The details-element-tag needs an attribute "open" and must be followed by a <summary>-tag, which can be empty.
<details open="open">
<summary></summary>
Then, to hide the arrow, add this CSS definition:
details summary::-webkit-details-marker, details summary { display:none; }
This will do it.
The details-element-tag needs an attribute "open" and must be followed by a <summary>-tag, which can be empty.
<details open="open">
<summary></summary>
Then, to hide the arrow, add this CSS definition:
details summary::-webkit-details-marker, details summary { display:none; }
This will do it.
