This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.
Technical Details:
If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.
There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.
Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.
You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.
And did I read correctly? This doesn't work with IE6 and there are no plans to make it work with it? Most of my users are still on IE6 so I really hope this isn't the case! This thing rocks.
And did I read correctly? This doesn't work with IE6 and there are no plans to make it work with it? Most of my users are still on IE6 so I really hope this isn't the case! This thing rocks.
I'm sorry but IE6 is a POS. And i believe that the internet is a better place without it. GMail tells IE6 users to upgrade to a better browser, so does Yahoo, and Facebook has many features that are not available. When you build stuff you shouldn't have to rebuild something specifically for one browser, since there IE6 is already two versions behind i think its ok to think of it as unsupported. If any of your users really want to use the feature then they can use something lightweight like Google Chrome. (but really any browser is a step up from IE6...)
Due to IE6 lack of following standards I feel that it has negatively effected all kinds of things. Its slowed down the progression of the internet, its also made it hard for designers. IE6 has been running the show for around 7 years, me and many other developers want to put an end to this.
I have vb3.8 with vbseo installed and it seems that only live topic icon is working on my site, the ajax update not, but I will give it a go tomorrow again.
I have vb3.8 with vbseo installed and it seems that only live topic icon is working on my site, the ajax update not, but I will give it a go tomorrow again.
I'm sorry but IE6 is a POS. And i believe that the internet is a better place without it. GMail tells IE6 users to upgrade to a better browser, so does Yahoo, and Facebook has many features that are not available. When you build stuff you shouldn't have to rebuild something specifically for one browser, since there IE6 is already two versions behind i think its ok to think of it as unsupported. If any of your users really want to use the feature then they can use something lightweight like Google Chrome. (but really any browser is a step up from IE6...)
Due to IE6 lack of following standards I feel that it has negatively effected all kinds of things. Its slowed down the progression of the internet, its also made it hard for designers. IE6 has been running the show for around 7 years, me and many other developers want to put an end to this.
i have this as a notice on my forums right at the top
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01-12-2009, 03:58 PM
