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Old 03-18-2003, 11:27 AM   #12
Reichart
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Exclamation UI Features after 2.0.

Most of these requests will be done. Such as being able to launch Windowed, and remember the size and location. It has been on the list for a long time, but we live by the “sorted” “prioritized” list, and simply, there has always been something else that out votes this. Speaking of which:

Morgon, there is a feature I want on Forums that only partially exists, something I plan to implement on our site one day (even without a forum) because it would be SO POWERFUL for learning “our” real wants and desires for software.

A Sorted Feature Voting system.

The way it works is; you are show a list, already sorted alphabetically (for example) at first. Perhaps it has 3-100 line items.

Black
Blue
Brown
Green
Orange
Purple
Red
Yellow
White

A user can vote on any item to be moved to the top of the list, or using some simple mechanism, sort the list the way they want it. The point being, a person can pick just one thing to be the TOP, or one thing to be the BOTTOM, or any percentage of the list. And so can everyone else.

The program simply tracks each person's prefs, and then shows the accumulated results:

103 Blue
77 Red
23 Green
15 Purple
1 Orange
0 Brown
0 Yellow
0 White
0 Black

Some items never get voted on. An thus sit lonely at the bottom of the list.

Lastly, of course, is the ability to add other items to the list, which are added after being approved by the Forum master.

This would be a GREAT PHP project for you (although you could write it in less than 10 lines of www.Rebol.com, this is what Rebol does best).
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