Suggestion about message highlighting/blacklisting

Posted Feb 8, 2007 19:47 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Suggestion about message highlighting/blacklisting by elprez
Parent article: Reader survey followup

> It would take a cookie storing the state (last read time, messages
> read, etc.) and some javascript to manipulate the DOM (highlight or
> hide messages).

If the message itself contains the date as some HTML attribute (class?),
the cookie might need only to contain last visited time and JS could
(could it?) do highlighting after comparing the article date attribute and
last visited cookie value...