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I like how the community deals and "Ask the Wooters" expand and contract depending on what you want

by sgoman5674
asked 2 years ago

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Ah, thanks. [blushes]

shawnmiller
2 years ago

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I like the expand/contract idea, however it would be nice to see it work with ajax, ie no page refresh.

imsaborda
2 years ago

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@imsaborda: good suggestion - there have been discussions on this internally as well. there's some interest in this, though it is not at top of our list and it has some downsides worthy of consideration (page load time, current and future browser compatibility including mobile, and maintenance time to keep it up to date)

snapster
2 years ago

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@snapster: Mobile is an issue. I know that when ther is a woot off, the yellow time bar doesn't appear for mobile version. Either that, or its my blackberry storm.

sgoman5674
2 years ago

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The text treatment for "expand" confused me. The way it's implemented, it creates seemingly legible words both right-side up and upside down:

expand / puedxa

Going with an all-caps version might help. Of course, I'm just a green-boxer so feel free to ignore and privately chastise me :)

nuts2u
2 years ago

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