A little feature request.
How about this. Everybody here uses facebook (or most of us). So there's this feature that whenever we post, it shows us the time elapsed since we posted it and not the exact time. So I was thinking, will it be possible to implement the same thing in here? I mean, at least I will find it useful. Tell me how you guys think.
Yes, the relative time is more useful than the absolute time. daniweb also does it like that.
Perhaps only if the post is not older than 7 days, as figures like "2 years ago" are not very accurate.
Perhaps only if the post is not older than 7 days, as figures like "2 years ago" are not very accurate.
@Athar
I agree. If a post is older than a certain period then the exact time can be shown instead of the relative one. And there is also one other option of having both of them.
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I agree. If a post is older than a certain period then the exact time can be shown instead of the relative one. And there is also one other option of having both of them.
What about LATEX tags? We could have [eqn type=inline] for inline equations and [eqn type=block] for block equations.
I would very much like Latex stuff, but the forum's code is not set up to do that nicely. (AFAIK)
All things should be designed in a modular fashion for just this reason. So sayeth me.
¿what do you want the time for?
About latex, there are services that would render your equation. It would be a shame if I need to go to the source code to see what you wrote
About latex, there are services that would render your equation. It would be a shame if I need to go to the source code to see what you wrote
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Your post is on Apr 14, 2012 at 8:41am. While in my pc its 1:43 PM. Now, i'm in no mood to look up the timezone and then figure out when you wrote it up. Wouldn't it be helpful if it were to show like 1 hour ago or 2 hour ago or such?
Well, I WAS under the impression that the time on the site and the time on my pc varied (due to timezone difference and such). But I am coming to realise that the time shown is same as my local time. Hmm.. in that case I may not need the feature. But I'd still rather have the relative time. I don't know why but its rather convenient. Some pshycological effect perhaps.
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I've personally always disliked forums that give something random like "1 hour ago" or "about 30 minutes ago" instead of just the time.
The Latex rendering would require a server-side script to run to generate an image.
The Latex rendering would require a server-side script to run to generate an image.
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I may interpret it by reading the tex directly, but if I've got to go to the html with all those escaped charaters...
We would use jsMath, which tries several methods of rendering (images and fonts). You can also add a feature to double click to show the source.
I still think it would be a lot of overhead...
But, I don't know much more about it than what I've said here.
But, I don't know much more about it than what I've said here.
Latex scripts could be quite useful, but then again I don't see an awful many attempts to write equations on this forum. Just how much of a benefit would those scripts provide, I wonder?
-Albatross
-Albatross
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Not much. As you said, generally we don't get math questions here very often - only occasionally in the lounge. And in that case, they can just link to codecogs or someplace else you can put latex code. Or ask on math.stackexchange
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