Cross machine cookies !?!

Mee-n-Mac · 06-11-2004, 02:30 PM

I've just noticed something "totally kewl" about the new & improved forum (I think). I was on the PC @ work this AM, read all the new posts and then, after working

, went home.

At home I used the laptop to checkup on a post and found that when I hit the "new posts" button only those (4) posts that had been posted since I left work came up as new. I had expected that all the posts I hadn't read via the laptop would come up as new. This was the way it worked on the old forum, with the record of new/old/read stored on the individual's machine. If my experience isn't some kind of fluke then it must be that the forum server stores the record of what posts I've read and DL's it to whatever machine I'm on whenever it recognizes me logging in. This makes using the new forum across multiple PCs much easier. Bravo Webmaster

fatlazyless · 06-18-2004, 05:47 AM

Clicking onto related newspaper and other www links set up as part of a poster's message is not doable for me as an MSN-tv user as opposed to a 'puter. With the old format I was able to do that plus the links were shown in red as I recall. Boo to the new, yea to the olde!

06-11-2004, 02:30 PM	#1
Mee-n-Mac Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,943 Thanks: 23 Thanked 111 Times in 51 Posts	Cross machine cookies !?! I've just noticed something "totally kewl" about the new & improved forum (I think). I was on the PC @ work this AM, read all the new posts and then, after working , went home. At home I used the laptop to checkup on a post and found that when I hit the "new posts" button only those (4) posts that had been posted since I left work came up as new. I had expected that all the posts I hadn't read via the laptop would come up as new. This was the way it worked on the old forum, with the record of new/old/read stored on the individual's machine. If my experience isn't some kind of fluke then it must be that the forum server stores the record of what posts I've read and DL's it to whatever machine I'm on whenever it recognizes me logging in. This makes using the new forum across multiple PCs much easier. Bravo Webmaster __________________ Mee'n'Mac "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple stupidity or ignorance. The latter are a lot more common than the former." - RAH

06-18-2004, 05:47 AM	#2
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,730 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,003 Times in 731 Posts	clickable links Clicking onto related newspaper and other www links set up as part of a poster's message is not doable for me as an MSN-tv user as opposed to a 'puter. With the old format I was able to do that plus the links were shown in red as I recall. Boo to the new, yea to the olde!