BJS saidBeing an impatient soul, I haven't got the time to sit around and wait for your reply. After a bit of testing, I discover that when looking at the Last Ten Posts. You could potentially bee looking at 10 different threads, and pressing the Show-link will show you that exact post where it belongs. But so will the Tread-link, although it will start from the top of the tread. But why "Show", you have allready seen the whole message.
And it you are at the top of a catagory, like kirit.com or kirit.com/Site:/Forums then you will have a Show-link on the top of the page that does nothing but Refresh.
And how about a "Hidden-link" to minimize those posts of little interest to the reader.
Eagerly awaiting your reply.
That's pretty good. Indeed, the Show link does slightly different things for different sorts of things on the web site. For articles (which includes categories) it will take you to the URL for that article. You'll notice that this is what happens with the news items on the home page. For a post it takes you to the post within the thread.
FOST.3™ is really a framework for building business systems. Each sort of thing (object) can have a set of actions associated with it. Most visitors don't have permission much beyond Show and (Thread on posts). You'll notice that when you're logged in you also get New thread on articles and New post & Reply on threads and Reply on posts. When I'm logged in I get even more (object Property link and even a Delete link).
There is an argument that a link that just goes to the same page as you're already on should not be a link at all, so really the Show link shouldn't be there. I'm not so sure as it does have some marginal utility in that it will get the server to send you a potentially updated version of the page without you having to hit the Refresh button (which forces the browser to refresh everything, like graphics that won't have changed).
But still, the basic and simplest answer is that those gray bars are the FOST.3™ equivalent of a context menu.
