Suzanne — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:29:21 +0000

Ah, good point! Convention is important!

The purpose & audience are all important. I would wonder why you'd use this technology for a messaging system, but I'll shoosh now.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:14:42 +0000

Suzanne, all of the 6 or 7 ASP chat scripts that I know of use frames and javascript to the degree that none would be usable without enabling them. So I think it's safe to use the javascript method.

I gather that this is supposed to be not dissimilar to an instant messaging program? If so, then I don't think it'd be wise to break the standard of appending new messages at the bottom.

Suzanne — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:26:26 +0000

I must point out that it only works if you set it to an obscenely large number. And that it is possible to have the page scroll that long (but likely it wouldn't). So it's not as reasonable a solution as inverting the entries.

Plus, lol, it doesn't work if JavaScript is disabled.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:25:45 +0000

Quote:
Good call Abhishek. Just goes to show the simple solution is often the best!

Guess there's always something simpler, eh?

mycoolross — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:49:04 +0000

Thanks CobolDinosaur!

I actually did this on Friday. I set it to some ridiculous number and it worked great. I appreciate your common sense solution.

Thank you very much,

- Mike

COBOLdinosaur — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:31:04 +0000

There is actually a very simple solutuion:

Always works because if the value specified is greater than the page length then it gets set to the length of the page.

detox — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:42:04 +0000

Good call Abhishek. Just goes to show the simple solution is often the best!

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:47:37 +0000

How about page anchors?

Do
Response.Write sPost
Loop 'Output all your posts
Response.Write "<a name='VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage'>" 'create an anchor

And when the page refreshes, instead of going to just the page itself, make it go to page.asp#VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage.

This way it reloads at the location of the anchor, which is always right after the last post.
I hope this is what you're asking about.

Also, how do you refresh the page? I don't think this is possible if you use tags.

mycoolross — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:12:27 +0000

Is there not a way in Javascript or DHTML
(which I guess would not be browser independent)
to do the following

document.body.scrollTop=VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage

Thanks,

Mike

Suzanne — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 04:57:23 +0000

Then the cookie solution and internal targets would be your best bet if you can't turn that around so the newest message is more logically at the top.