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Re: Text changing on click

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bit-naughty wrote:
> Evertjan. wrote:

>> You should by now have learned,

(The following line was in Evertjan's message, but was elided in the 
response.)

||that on usenet one needs to quote.

> Oh *WILL* you STFU!

There are plenty of people pushing their own views of USENET etiquette 
for seemingly little reason.  (A certain pointy-eared member is 
especially bad about this.)  But this is not such a case.  Evertjan's 
suggestion is extremely important.

From the headers on your message, I'm guessing that you view 
comp.lang.javascript through Google Groups.  That interface is inherently 
conversational, and not quoting doesn't seem to lose context.  But this 
is *not* a Google Group, and many of us interact with it in other ways.  
comp.lang.javascript is part of USENET, a part which Google happens to 
expose through its Groups interface.  Here's how I use it at the moment:

I open my newsreader, a useful, but perhaps not particularly friendly 
tool named "Pan", that I believe was installed automatically with my OS.  
(There are better newsreaders, and some day, I'll probably switch to 
one.)  When I log onto it, I ask Pan to download the new headers in 
groups I follow.  Although I could choose a view something like Google's 
full threaded one, I choose to have my main window only show the new 
messages, so that I can easily see what I haven't read.

I might log on every day for a week, then not again for two months, then 
three times a day for another month.  In other words, I'm inconsistent in 
how often I view the groups I follow.

When I looked today, the first message I saw in this thread was this 
one.  I had no context.  I had no idea what you were responding to.  I 
might have seen the predecessors last week but had forgotten them.

Now consider the message that Evertjan reacted to, one that started like 
this:

| Sorry, just to add -  can this whole thing be done entirely in CSS, is 
| JS even necessary?

If you were to open that message, without any context, would you feel 
able to respond?

The point is, if you had quoted your original message, properly reduced 
to the relevant section, then anyone could understand your new question 
in isolation.  Perhaps something like:

| I wrote:
|
|| If I have some text, say "Click me", when someone clicks it, I want it 
|| to change to "Clicked" - but I owould like say, a greaan curved 
|| rectangle around the "Clicked" - how do I do this? 
|
| Sorry, just to add -  can this whole thing be done entirely in CSS, is 
| JS even necessary?


So those insisting on proper quotation are not simply being pedantic; 
they are trying to improve the quality of the conversation in the 
community.

Does this make sense?

  -- Scott

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Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-19 22:52 -0700
  Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-19 22:55 -0700
    Re: Text changing on click "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-09-20 12:07 +0200
      Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-21 23:40 -0700
        Re: Text changing on click "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-09-22 08:42 +0200
          Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-22 07:23 -0700
        Re: Text changing on click Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-09-25 22:21 +0000
          Re: Text changing on click "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-09-26 16:25 +0200
            Re: Text changing on click "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-09-26 17:47 +0200
          Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-28 22:51 -0700
            Re: Text changing on click Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-09-30 03:17 +0000
  Re: Text changing on click Martin Honnen <martin.honnen@gmx.de> - 2016-09-20 11:05 +0200
    Re: Text changing on click Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-20 14:39 +0200
      Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-21 23:39 -0700
  Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-22 07:20 -0700
    Re: Text changing on click "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-09-22 23:44 +0200
    Re: Text changing on click bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-09-28 22:54 -0700

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