MIT Technology Review: An Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup -- OT

[Pragma]

John Reimer wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:55:09 -0800, Pragma 
> <ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com> wrote:
> 
>> Something I ran into that the group might enjoy:
>>
>> From: http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17831/
>>
> 
> Off-topic observation:
> 
> I love the way the threading works in the comments section of this 
> article!  You just click on the comment and it immediatly shows the 
> comment text.  Clicking it again collapses it. You can do that for each 
> comment. Now that's a great system!  To bad the D newsgroup couldn't do 
> something like that for its web interface.
> 
> -JJR
> 

It's a nice concept, but (IMO) it makes for slow reading if you want to 
digest an entire thread on-page.  I'd much rather see the posts in full, 
but have the tree kept for expanding and collapsing threads as I go.

Kind of like a compromise between a TreeView and Slashdot I suppose.

Now, if you want to see something *really slick* for commenting, take a 
look at JackSlocum's site:

http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/2006/10/09/my-wordpress-comments-system-built-with-yahoo-ui-and-yahooext/

It's pretty script-heavy, but it shows what can be done with AJAX and a 
solid widget set.  Be sure to check out the "Documentation" section too.

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- EricAnderton at yahoo