Navigation links need double click?

Ah, that is the trick. I was only glad, that I know most important links by heart and can fill it in in the brwser line.

From the small change to the bullet point when you click, it seems like each link is trying to produce a drop-down menu (in the way that the "Create Content" link does, and is supposed to).

MS

dear scrubby,

i see your post.
i see there are letters and those form words. i'm ashamed but i nevertheless admit that they make absolutely no sense to me (now i wanted to insert a blushing smiley but somehow it doesn't work ).

may i present you with a kudo for having me flabbergasted?

yours

sp ooooo

i see what you mean. wouldn't have noticed it myself, but it seems that we have a case of reversed group pressure... instead of the create content link imitating the group of non-drop-down-menu links, we have a group imitating a single indivudual.... fascinating... *goes off mumbling*

I'm glad I made sense to somebody. It just reinforces my opinion that I should get my posts translated into normal English by Ratty

MS

Although I didn't get what you were talking about (since I never heard of anything like "creat content" stuff), I realized that while the bullets do show up in Firefox, they do not in IE. Therefore I can just adopt my own theorie and go on believing you were talking about that B-)

nope, sorry. what scrubby is trying to say is that there's a link in the navigation bar called create content. this link opens a drop down menu and therefor has a little arrow as bullet point rather than a point. now, when you click one of the other links, eg recent site posts, its bullet point will change into a little arrow pointing down. when you click it again it will turn into a little arrow pointing right. so the other links are trying to behave like the link with the drop down menu and instead of taking you to whereever they link to, they try to show/hide a drop down menu, only they don't have one.

What she said

I know, lets all jump of the white cliffs of Dover holding hands!

Yay, then we did think the same thing. This is amaaaaaaazing, just fantaaaastic

Thanks to Ratty's explanations even I finally got what Scrubby was talking about. Having neither the bullets nor the arrow thingies on my screen I was cunfuzzled. But i noticed when I click "create content" I get nice little squares in the drop down menue!

But, alas, the smileys still don't work for me !

(means the : and - and ( thing works but i can't choose out of the "prefabricated" ones)

jup, same with me. I do love smilies but am just not able to put them in any more ;-(

nor is anyone else afaik.

Well, you can always write in the text for them... If you know it. I think the only ones i know are and

MS

exactly. that's the point. and at least the msn for the blushing smiley ( :$ ) doesn't seem to work....

You can find them all in the input format bitty, as they used to be:

http://www.thudgame.com/filter/tips/4#filter-smileys-0

It's annoying though.

nice. thanks, hex

Hex, the smile-saver

Bah humbug!
It was nothing
By the way...
Should I grow something like this

no. no, i don't think so.

dunno, do you have a picture of yourself?

although i have never actually seen hex i know he should wait some more years before growing a beard like that. they tend to look a bit silly on most teenagers.

Well yeah
'Twas mainly to show of the dewi smiley

i figured

I thought so too, but why not take it up seriously and find out how you react

Hmmm...after due consideration...NO! HELL NO! OM'S SEVENTH LEVEL OF NO!

awwwwwwwww!

Anyone have a picture of Hex?
Anyone have a photoshop?
Anyone good at changing pictures?
Now can you draw a beard onto the picture of hex (preferrably where it is supposed to be in the face)?
Can you send me this picture? I do want to have a look at that.

(Make checks if one of the steps is done, so I know how far we already got)

Yayyyy, feedback!! That's the spirit!

OK, amongst various site tweaks and the yearly servicing it gets (OK, monthly, really...), one of the things I enabled was a little javascripty thing that lets you go to a place after double-clicking it. I have to confess it threw me for a bit as the description was something completely different (supposed to be for admin-y stuff rather than navigation). I'm not sure it adds anything so if it's annoying everyone I'll turn it off.

On another note, I also added on the Websnapr javascripty thing ages ago that shows a preview of the page you would go to when you hover over a web-link on the site. This is starting to annoy me and I would like to turn it off but what do you all think. It's only eye-candy, after all, but if folk like it I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks for the discussion - it's very helpful for us

it's not only annoying, i think it's also "dangerous". if i was an innocent discworld fan googling thud and ending up on this site i would leave again very quickly and never come back if i found that i can't actually go anywhere because the links don't work. i mean, few people would actually get the idea to double click the link. so i guess it'd be better to switch it off.

well, i was never exactly fond of these things, so i'm definitely not gonna complain if you switch them off. i don't see why i'd want to see a preview of the linked site anyway (same with windows 7: why are they wasting there time programming something that gives me a life sized preview of a minimized window? if i'd want to see the window life sized i'll just open it).

umm, yeah, in what way is us discussing hex with a dewi beard helpful for you?

I do agree with Ratty there

Well, why not do it only for external sites? The internals look exactly the same anyways.

Ratty: How can u question the importance and helpfullness of our beard-discussion?

umm, easy. *points at the above*

I'd also prefer the double-click removed. as i'm not much of an experienced internet user myself, i was really puzzled when i couldn't use the single-click thingy any more and if ratty hadn't told me of the double click i'd probably still be out there .......click........click...........click.........*feeling stupid.....*blushes**

I agree remove the double click thing.

But the web preview i think is sometimes useful.

On the beard thing i welcome the competition there is too much beard prejudice in the world today it seems that only me, Sir pTerry, ZZTop, an Archbishop and some lost terrorist are keeping the beard alive and i suspect the reason the CIA have not found bin lardin is he has shaved his beard off and their ID systems are confused

Double clicks:Bad
Previews:Bad
Beard on me:Bad
Trust me, I ain't'n't pretty!

Now you definitely have to upload a picture!

Since you were so insistent (and because I'm learning to use paintshop)

Whatever you say, it definitely does suit you

I have a beard!

we know that, captain bluebeard

Yes, we know, and it is green

what is green?

the former blue beard. It must be. Blue always turns out green