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I decided to put on the ol' thinking cap today, and ended up created a pretty neat (in my opinion) proof-of-concept example of what a future D-Mods listing page might feel like.

I've only got it to successfully work in Mozilla Firefox so far.

You can view it in all of its glory right here.

Essentially, you can dynamically sort the list. Click on the 'A' in a column to sort it in Ascending order, click on the 'D' in a column to sort it in Descending order. I didn't bother to add in multiple page support yet, but that could be possible as well.

Now I'll be speaking some technical mumbo-jumbo, so unless this sort of thing interests you dearly, go play with the buttons some more. The D-mod listing data is actually stored in an XML file that it reads in on-the-fly when the page is loaded. In the final implementation, the XML would be updated only when a change was made to the contents (an updated file, new review which modifies the review score, etc). Plus, it would be possible to do this without any server-side scripting at all, besides the update of the XML file. Everything could be done client side.

This poses other problems though, such as compatibility with older browsers. I may end up having *optional* support for this, to make changing categories and sorting much more responsive, while having some sort of server-side implementation as a backup.

But I am very intrigued by Javascript's ability to read in XML... I mean, this could make super-cool forums and such.

Cool! I like it! I'm quite looking forward to this as it looks better and is more functional (based on your description). Keep up the good work!

I think it looks excellent, though I still find the colour scheme makes me want to snort iron filings.

Sorry, but it's true.

I like it and the colour scheme in Firefox is blue, much like the current version of the DN, but in IE it is red - whoooie!

Is that what you are refering to Sabre?

Oh and Redink maybe "Up" and "Down" arrows for the ascending and descending icons instead of A and D (It took me a few seconds to realise what they were for - could just be me being ... old)

I see "news" "account" "files" and "forum" at the top of the page, where's "porn"?

I fixed the weird 'red' scheme for Internet Explorer, even though the page doesn't actually work, it looks half-way decent.

I also changed the 'A' and 'D' to arrows, though they're kind of hard to see.

And I added a Porn link for MiloBones.

Haha.

You should put a Tal Porn link at the end of the sword.

Okay, no you shouldn't. But it would be kinda funny.

Yes, I was seeing it in red. Now it's in blue, it looks much, much nicer.

Yeah, that looks really good.

Am I supposed to see a list of something somewhere? I just get emptiness in the middle. The rest of it is neat, though.

Aye. It only works in Firefox, and doesn't display at all in Internet Explorer because I'm lazy. I should have made that more clear, sorry.

So redink, will you put the 3d test models in there?
On a more serious note, where is the Author Column?

Author Column?

Edit: Oh, yeah. Well, the easiest way for me to extract the information out of the database was to neglect the author column, so I did so In the real version, it'll have the author.