Also, it would be nice to see an actual Close image rather than [X] .. but I guess I’m being picky…

Also, Us Eye-Candy whores are fans of trasnparency

Eventually I can see some (at least one) little drawback(s) to the pop-up window method (beside the many positve possiblities), for example for people with little screens.
I usually prefer to avoid having things to work two different ways(a setting in UCP), as it needs some additional work, but in this case I think it could be a big plus to let user choose which method to use (pop-up or not), as already said, it would give more possibilities for most users, while being also friendly to users with small screens.

That would be neat.

PS: Your doing an AWESOME job on IPB 2.1 right now. I’m so honoured to be a customer of IPS. I cant wait until IPB 2.1 is release!

someotherguy582 — Area09 — PHP Developer

My assisstant is looking brilliant, great job Matt.
One sugestion I have is add a fast reply to the PM notification window gmail/ipb forum style. Just a 2 or 3 line text entry box with two buttons – send and more options. That’s all I noticed missing.

2.1 is looking like a stellar upgrade, can’t wait

Great changes and moves ! It makes me happy to see that (the good part of) customer feedback is taken in count.

These are for sure great improvments in comparison to v2.1 alpha1/2. It is really great that you took time and energy (!) to change working things that did already cost you nerves(I am thinking of the semi transparent implemenation and the bugs you had).

OK, enough, now the feedback:

When looking at the video an idea came to me at first(besides that ajax and the tabs are looking amazing). I never used the “My assistent” until now (I didn’t like it). The reason was of course that you couldn’t do much with it. And as it wasn’t an “ajax-dynamical thing” and had no tabs also; after opening it, it would just have stayed there, not used, as IPB has a “view new posts”-link on every page.
BUT now, there is this truly amazing widget. I really like it, as it can be very usefull with its tabs an ajax features. That’s the moment were I thought, oh, wouldn’t this be great as a pop-up window NOW (!) ?. I could place it beside my main-window like my instant messenger (AIM/Yahoo/…) and I could look at some PM’s while following a topic in the forum.

Then I read your answer:

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Currently, it makes the MyAssistant invisible when you (re-)load a page.

I am playing with the idea of allowing one to ‘collapse’ it and store the state in a cookie so that it appears collapsed (or open) on subsequent page loads.
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Ok that would be already another very nice improvment. But wouldn’t it be even more amazing to have it opend like an IM-window, now that it is dynamical thanks to the tabs and the ajax features ? Being able to look at PM’s while a topic page loads for example, or searching a word in the new tab, while reading through the topic. Sure you could search also with your new implementation, but often you dislike covering parts of the window you are actually using, especially if you have a big screen. I know form experience, that people are not so comfortable not being able to move a “widget” out of the main window. It feels like jailed…
People like to move things where they want to have it, and this would only work with the pop-up window. This would become a sort of IM. You could even navigate to another website, and still receive a new PM, as ajax can look if there are new PM’s without complete refresh and load it if there is one (gmail like). Perhaps you could even reply to it(I think no RTE is needed, at least not the full one, or just a little input box would be enough).

So I think that a pop-up window would be amazing, even if I never used the old one. I think that the time has come now where it would be usefull.

I am playing with the idea of allowing one to ‘collapse’ it and store the state in a cookie so that it appears collapsed (or open) on subsequent page loads.