UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback New column

Here is another idea... what I posted earlier, to make new messages have different cell bgcolors and bold text. Here is a screen shot of what it loks like in in postlist collapsed...

http://www.imcuniverse.com/images/imcforum2.gif

If the thread is new or has new messages, the cell bgolors are different, controlled by a CSS class. Also, the text in those cells is bold.

In postlist expanded, it looks like this:

http://www.imcuniverse.com/images/imcforum.gif

As you can see, only the individual new messages are marked as new...

In showthreaded, it looks like this:

http://www.imcuniverse.com/images/imcforum3.gif

Again, only new messages are marked.

Since this was done with 5.1.3, without the new sun icon column, the new images/icons/folders are still used. Don't know if they are really needed much with the alternate/bold cells... which (to me anyway) overshadow any difference in the icons.

Also note that the alternating cell bgcolors are removed for this to work well. It could work with them, though... I just don't think it would look very good. Demonstrated on a simple color scheme, with white as the dark and light table colors in the CSS.

So, what do you think? Should the 'new' images ([]http://www.wwwthreads.com/w3timages/new.gif[/]) be removed, and what about the 'new' folders/orange icons? I'm thinking of removing either one or both... not sure.

Also, maybe use the same 'new' cell bgcolor in showflat?

Any input?

Muhammad Chishti
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