Re: Adds auto focusing on the oldest unread/newest modified blip when opening a wave.

[jerem...@gmail.com]

Hi all.
I'm not a coder or a reviewer but just an addicted hardcore GWave and
WIAB user. I've ended up on this page after some research because I've
used this "auto focus on the oldest unread blip, or newest modified blip
when the wave is read" feature on the waveinabox.net demo servers for
some weeks and I was impatient of seeing it back into WIAB. Without code
knowledge I can't debate on the server or client roles nor about
optimization, but since there is also some debate on the usefulness of
this feature, please allow me to share how I see it as a user.
For unread blips this features behaves exactly like on GWave. But when
opening a fully read wave, it adds this extra-feature of focusing on the
last edited blip. This is brilliant because in a large wave that is read
and that hasn't been edited for some time, it can be a pain to track
back the final state of the discussion (because of the non-linear
structure of the wave) in order to reply where this discussion/debate
last stopped (and even if playback was implemented it would be a longer
process just to find back the last point made).
In fact, after only a few opened waves, I was already missing that
feature when I was back on GWave. And as Yuri said, the feedback
expressed by 10+ waveinabox.net users was extremely positive. I have no
idea if you can technically try a patch before submitting it, but I'm
almost certain that if you try this feature for a few days you'll adopt
it. It's really a "must" for productivity.
I hope that posting here without being a contributor isn't some kind of
spam and I hope this post can be of any help.
Best regards to you all and thanks for your work on Wave,
Jeremy.

http://codereview.waveprotocol.org/610001