Nested Quotes

[Dave Sinkula]

Some sites have the quoting by default, here it takes a little extra effort. But when it exists, nested quotes look a little odd.
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[server_crash]

I agree... Maybe a little outline would do the job?

[Dave Sinkula]

Sorry about the bump, but I saw the nested quotes are still like this. Is that your preference Dani? Or did this one get lost in the pile during the computer switchover?

[edit]How about I put an example right here?

Some sites have the quoting by default, here it takes a little extra effort. But when it exists, nested quotes look a little odd.
[post]218686[/post]

Some sites have the quoting by default, here it takes a little extra effort. But when it exists, nested quotes look a little odd.
[post]218686[/post]

Some sites have the quoting by default, here it takes a little extra effort. But when it exists, nested quotes look a little odd.
[post]218686[/post]

[Dani]

That's sorta my preference. Do you think I have bad taste, lol?

['Stein]

Heh looks fine to me...;)

[~s.o.s~]

Maybe nesting the quotes in an outlined box with some sort of outlining would really make the nested quotes more easy to read. I completely agree with Mr. Dave.

Though it looks good its not much of a friendly user interface (software engineering principles anyone ?)

But this is just me.

[goldeagle2005]

How about simply underlining the word 'Quote:' and 'Quoted by: <username>" ?

[~s.o.s~]

How about simply underlining the word 'Quote:' and 'Quoted by: <username>" ?

So what do you think we are working with right now.

It was just an suggestion and of course we know the diference between "quote" and "quoted by". ;)

[Dave Sinkula]

That's sorta my preference. Do you think I have bad taste, lol?

I find it much easier to following something like this:
http://www.cpp-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75781#75781

[goldeagle2005]

So what do you think we are working with right now.

It was just an suggestion and of course we know the diference between "quote" and "quoted by". ;)

No no..what I was saying was that where 'Quote in Quote' is involved, Dani could underline the phrase 'Quoted by: <username>'. That way it'll be easier to follow the QiQ. Wouldn't you agree?

[Dani]

I'll go with that. What do you guys think?

[Dave Sinkula]

So what do you think we are working with right now.

It was just an suggestion and of course we know the diference between "quote" and "quoted by". ;)

No no..what I was saying was that where 'Quote in Quote' is involved, Dani could underline the phrase 'Quoted by: <username>'. That way it'll be easier to follow the QiQ. Wouldn't you agree?

But since the quoted party is not necessarily given [QUOTE=goldeagle2005], and interjecting the current poster rather than the quotee would be quite wrong, I think that's going a different direction from where I was headed.

It's all purple (with the word Quote or Quoted appearing a number of times), some of the indentation hints at who, but to me it is not easy to follow without some kind of wrapper -- a color variation or a box of some kind.

My preference would be alternating hues of purple, light/dark per nesting level. But that's just me.

[edit]Dani?! Are you experimenting while I'm posting?

[edit=2]That kinda thing helps. I can live with that.

[edit=3]Except for the Quoted: Quote by: redundancy.
But you'll never please me -- you know that by now! :twisted:

[Dani]

Here is a test of one quote:

One quote still looks the same

But ...

Test One

Test Two

Test Three

And another ...

[Dave Sinkula]

Quote reply...

Here is a test of one quote:

But ...

D'oh!

But, yes. That's more to my taste if you can live with that.

I'd also prefer not italicising the quoted material and having a "Quoted By: Poster" frame instead of the duplication (see above).

And of course allowing nested quoting when you quote.

(But again you're hearing from me.)

[Dani]

Here is a test of one quote:

One quote still looks the same

But ...

Test One

Test Two

Test Three

And another ...

[Dave Sinkula]

Here is a test of one quote:

But ...

Dandy. I'll assume that it is by design that nesting is not default and I can live with the pain if it's a bandwidth type of issue. (It'll be my secret weapon^H^H^H^H^H^H^H -- now only if you had the strikethrough tags!! [Yes, I am evil.])

[aside]Is this eventually retroactive?[/aside]

[aside=2]Do you ever sleep?[/aside]

[Dani]

Nesting? By default? Huh? Confused?

[Dani]

If this makes things clearer, the above was made with [php]
Here is a test of one quote:

[quote]One quote still looks the same[/quote]

But ...

[quote=Me]Test One[quote=You]Test Two[quote=Foo]Test Three[quote]And another ...[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/php]

[Dave Sinkula]

Nesting? By default? Huh? Confused?

Where if you quote a reply that has quoted replies, the quoted replies are quoted. Yea?

Reply to your quoted reply and notice the previously quoted replies are removed.

[goldeagle2005]

To be honest, I kinda prefer Dave's suggestion..about alternating different shades of purple. Dani, how about trying that out?

[Dani]

I'm kinda all settled with what I have now :-/ Plus, I don't want to introduce too many different colors into the design.

[goldeagle2005]

Allright. Save the suggestion for when you next redesign the forums.

[Dani]

You know me too well, eh? :)

[goldeagle2005]

Hey, I've been an active member here since I joined. I think I know the admins/mods a bit...:mrgreen:

[Dave Sinkula]

Allright. Save the suggestion for when you next redesign the forums.

Shhhhhh! I'm just getting accustomed to this.

[edit]No, wait. I'd like that one.