Boards Toolbar!

Shrimp

Hey,

I was just thinkin, It'd be a good idea. What you think?

feylya

But what does it do?

Shrimp

Like your pm's / recent posts / user cp / reputation points etc..

feylya

Meh, what's the point?

Shrimp

to keep up to date on your posts and others

feylya

Well, there was a RSS feed or something like that that you could see the last few posts but individually showing each users details constantly updating would probably increase the bandwidth usage quite a lot.

fragile

What, like an IE toolbar

A Mozilla sidebar, now there's an idea

Shrimp

thats what i meant an IE Toolbar!!

Redshift

Nice Idea but it would probably murder the mysql server with all those extra queries.

Woden

there is a boards ticker knocking about some where that can run in your toolbar with stuff on latest threads, or i think you can set it to latest threads which you are subscribed to and such

edit - try here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=39220

Shrimp

do you think it would be a good idea if it was to be released as a beta. very simple. I think it would really take off!

fragile

Y o u s s e f wrote:

thats what i meant an IE Toolbar!!

I am just responding so that my sig can counteract the effects of your post

Shrimp

Well, i think that this would be very successful!

flogen

Hate to point out but you seem to be alone there.

A toolbar would be pretty pointless, really. What would it have besides a "PM" notifier and a boards.ie search button? I love boards and all... but it's no google (yet )

flogen

snappieT

It could also show the latest post that you responded to that has had another response.

Great Ideo

Shrimp

Ok,

I have an idea, i'll sketch up what i mean. just as an example. Valid point flogen!

Shrimp

Shrimp

Do you like it? As its only an example its open to suggestions!:)

Rabies

Y o u s s e f wrote:

Do you like it? As its only an example its open to suggestions!:)

No not really. Whenever I'm online I always have Boards open. Prob not alone in this. Don't think there is a need for it.

seamus

TBH Youssef, I applaud and empathise with your enthusiasm, but all of these things can be solved by creating a new toolbar in your browser, and filling it with links to the relevant pages, like I do.

The top of each page tells you your PM status, so I don't think that's so important.

smoke.me.a.kipper

i always have a boards.ie window open when im online. might be handy for the odd occasion that im not on boards, or even if you were to add a login/logout field to it?

woosaysdan

good idea but imo not needed i always just log in if i need to find out something

The Corinthian

I would like to thank Y o u s s e f for volunteering to sacrifice his spare time to develop the Boards toolbar. We all look forward to seeing the beta.

Gordon

Yeah thanks Youssef! Can you make a Firefox one too while you are at it?

Creamy Goodness

probably be better off making a firefox one instead of an IE one.

the majority of people seem to use FF here. (me included)

yossarin

Hobbes allready made a nice firefox search thingie

fragile

Y o u s s e f wrote:

Do you like it? As its only an example its open to suggestions!:)

If you are so confident that it would be successful why don't you just make one, and then ask what people think of it. If you have access to Visual Studio 6 or VS .NET then it shouldn't be too difficult, see here for an introduction to coding an IE toolbar.

Unless of course you are looking for somebody else to code it for you

Shrimp

Hey Guys & Gals,

Hey I think Fragile should give it a shot? :rolleyes:
I just thought that this would be a handy tool for mods and users! It could have more features as well! Any suggestions on what it could include!?

Thanks For all the feedback!

Cabaal

fragile wrote:

What, like an IE toolbar

A Mozilla sidebar, now there's an idea

I like the idea
I'm for the sidebar idea

It could give links to CP, recent posts or subscribed boards
would be very handy and certainly easier make then a IE toolbar


If there be enough interested I could give it a shot

flogen

Y o u s s e f wrote:

I just thought that this would be a handy tool for mods and users!

It may well be, but you've gotta sell it to us! Show us a prototype (and a pic wont cut the mustard on this one).

Thanks yossarin for pointing out the firefox search extension, could come in useful sometime!

flogen

Shrimp

Any give it a shot yet?

Shrimp

*bump

Gordon

Hey Guys & Gals,

Hey I think Cabaal should give it a shot?:D:p;) :rolleyeswithextremelylargepixel:

Shrimp

yeah.. go on Cabaal.. :D:D

Hobbes

yossarin wrote:

Hobbes allready made a nice firefox search thingie

Actually did a few. Think its still in my sig. If you want to make a toolbar then go for it. I'd suggest Firefox as XUL is painless to use and faster.

Hobbes

Ok pondering this.

TBH a toolbar at least in firefox would be pointless. You already have the boards.ie search engine for firefox so removes that from your piccy.

PM option I could probably do up a status bar link that queries every 10 minutes (would need help from admins though). But unless you get PM's frequently I don't see a point to it. But thats just me.

The last four parts on the picture are pointless as they can be created by bookmarks. You can even link to the RSS feed (Live Bookmark) that boards.ie does and that will give you live list of active topics in the firefox bar.

What I might do is create a basic boards.ie plugin package (Searches, wiki, PMs, RSS and bookmark links and anything of note). Not guaranteeing anything though.