Invisions new "snap back" feature

[rnawky]

Quoted posts (when using the 'reply' or 'quote+') buttons now have a small 'snap-back' image which takes you to the original post that you're quoting. Demonstration.

Its only a matter of time before vB steals there idea

Anyway, if it me, or does this look verry much like this

Not only did they steal the icon for the safri web browser, they used the same name. dotn you think they could get in trouble for this?

[CeleronXT]

Their snapback thing reloads the entire page instead of just jumping to an anchor. It's really not all that useful like that. I wouldn't mind seeing it implemented properly in vB3.

[assassingod]

Not a bad idea actually.

[Shining Arcanine]

This would be nice to have in vBulletin.

[rnawky]

ya but they stole the name and image for it. dont you think they could get in trouble for doing that?

[CeleronXT]

In a word - probably. Any good lawyer could easily make a case out of that.

[Shining Arcanine]

ya but they stole the name and image for it. dont you think they could get in trouble for doing that?

And they say Microsoft infringes on their copyrights... Microsoft has a similiar image as IPB, IPB 2.0 has the same exact image as Apple. Anyone want to report this to Apple's legal department?

[rnawky]

And they say Microsoft infringes on their copyrights... Microsoft has a similiar image as IPB, IPB 2.0 has the same exact image as Apple. Anyone want to report this to Apple's legal department?

what similar image?

[assassingod]

Let's hope IPB do get in trouble over the image and name, then vBulletin will have less competition

[Surrix]

I can see this totally see this working but we have one problem. while we could use the post655895 anchor stuff what happens when you quote something that is on a different page from where your post actually is it that situtation you have to reload to a difference page.

[Mark.B]

I have got a very haphazard version of this working on vb three.

Change your newpost_quote template to link to the single post view of the post you are quoting.

[quote][url=http://www.yourforums.com/forum/showpost.php?p=$postinfo[postid]][img]http://www.yourforum.com/images/snap.gif[/img][/url][b] QUOTE:[/b][i] Originally posted by $originalposter [/i]
{$pagetext}
[/quote] 

[Mark.B]

OK I appreciate that's a little messy in the text editor unless you use the WYSIWIG, but I just knocked it up in 5 minutes as an example of how it could be done.

The snap.gif image is below:

[Mark.B]

Other obvious disadvantages, you can't make it have an ALT tag as it's using vbcode, and you have to use the full URLs not relative path for the same reason so it's a bit long winded.

But it'll do for me until someone writes a hack to achieve it more professionally....

[tgillespie]

IPB has a tendancy to steal lots of ideas. Guess thats what you do when your second best

[Mr. HillBilly]

IPB has a tendancy to steal lots of ideas. Guess thats what you do when your second best

Yup. Since they started to work on 2.0 they have been taking ideas of vB and just renaming them