Back button works, Ajex gone

October 26, 2006 2:19 PM

FYI: the tabs on mefi, metatalk, and ask mefi are no longer ajaxy, loading whole pages instead. They all have permanent easy to read URLs and your back button works again.
posted by mathowie (staff) to Feature Requests at 2:19 PM (18 comments total)

For those of us who have our prefs set to open links in new windows, the new-style links open in new windows. Other than that, cooooool.
posted by delfuego at 2:28 PM on October 26, 2006

ok, new window junk should be fixed.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:45 PM on October 26, 2006

Cool. Much better on the shared machines at work.

Has the 'Most Favorited in the Past 24 Hours' yielding stuff that was last favorited three days ago been brought up yet?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 2:55 PM on October 26, 2006

robocop is bleeding, and you show me an example post that hasn't been favorited in three days that is currently on the last 24 hours list? URLs to both, please.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:15 PM on October 26, 2006

Thank you!
posted by aubilenon at 3:21 PM on October 26, 2006

...and there was much rejoicing.

yay.
posted by carsonb at 3:32 PM on October 26, 2006

Well, this change un-broke a script or three or five. Even were that not the exact intent, a subset of MetaFilter users and script developers owe you thanks for the site modification. And I am a member of that subset.
posted by mdevore at 4:03 PM on October 26, 2006

The a:active color on the links on the tabs for the plain text theme is white, which is probably not what you wanted. Minor, but I just noticed.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:23 PM on October 26, 2006

show me an example post that hasn't been favorited in three days that is currently on the last 24 hours list? URLs to both, please.

Here's two.

The problem is a bit more subtle than that, of course. There are posts up that have been favorited only once in the past three days as well, which is almost certainly not a valid result of the intended algorithm.
posted by gsteff at 5:13 PM on October 26, 2006

gsteff, there's no mention of the mike tyson post here.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:37 PM on October 26, 2006

Sweet. It's a nice pony. Thank you, Matt.
posted by five fresh fish at 5:41 PM on October 26, 2006

Oh, I was referring to the "Recent favorites" page here.
posted by gsteff at 5:41 PM on October 26, 2006

There fixed. The all favorites post shows 1 week ago, so I changed the description to reflect that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:43 PM on October 26, 2006

Just a little thing: deleted posts show up on "popular favorites" et al. This seems like a pretty prominent place for posts that are supposed to be gone, but it's nice to retain the ability to favorite deleted posts. Maybe that's not a concern at all, it just occurred to me.
posted by koeselitz at 5:59 PM on October 26, 2006

Hooray!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:23 PM on October 26, 2006

boraxo forever!
posted by quonsar at 3:30 PM on October 27, 2006

Good choice, I think.
posted by scarabic at 5:39 PM on October 27, 2006

Hey, I can turn JS off again! Yay! My pony just got a little bigger. :-)

Oddly, my pony refuses to be blue. I've even cleared cache, right down to its nuts, and my pony is... well, ugly. Black on white, default text, etc. Somehow, I don't end up with the CSS, or the CSS isn't being cleared from cache.

Doesn't harm functionality, and I only view the page for a moment to shift+click the links I'm interested in, plus it's actually a tiny bit easier to read...
posted by five fresh fish at 8:46 AM on October 28, 2006