[OWW-Discuss] Recently visited pages

[Barry Canton]

I think such a feature would be very useful (I frequently view recent
changes to find the pages I've been editing recently which is a bit
more awkward).

But given that we are talking about a sitewide change, I'd be
interested to get Bill's take on it and also have some users test it
prior to implementing sitewide.

Barry

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     If we wanted to make it sitewide, someone would just have to add
>     that line to: http://openwetware.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js
>
>     But as no one appears to have even tried it out or uses it other
>     than me (as far as I know), it clearly hasn't been a highly
>     desired feature. As it changes the UI on every single page, it
>     would require some consensus that people wanted it.
>
>
>
>  > While I welcome this advice, it is quite different from making it a
>  > standard feature of the site.
>  >
>  > On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Austin Che wrote:
>  >
>  >> Tom Knight <tk at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> Other highly linked sites maintain a list of the last half-dozen or so
>  >>> pages visited on the site by you as a click menu on the page.  This
>  >>> seems like it would be a very welcome navigation feature in OWW.  I
>  >>> often find myself wanting to switch quickly between several pages.
>  >>
>  >>     Add the following to monobook.js under your userpage or go to
>  >>     http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Mypage/monobook.js
>  >>     document.write('<script type="text/javascript"
>  >> src="http://openwetware.org/index.php?title=User:Austin_J._Che/
>  >> Extensions/history.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></script>');
>  >>
>  >>     This should add a drop down list of your most recently visited
>  >>     pages.
>
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