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

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Tue Dec 5 11:27:09 PST 2006


Brad Anderson wrote:

> Pragma wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> That site crushed my browser.  I also got the FF2 "runaway script, debug
> or stop" dialog.
> 
> A second visit once everything would theoretically be cached was no
> better. The google pageads were pretty slow, but things were crushed
> enough that even
> Firebug didn't respond very well.  So I couldn't tell if it was a bunch of
> Ajax calls or what was running so slowly.
> 
> BA

It works in mine FF2, but Konqueror only shows the background color, and
says nothing about errors. Personally I would never bother to read that
page, it was way too busy, I almost thought it was badly rendered at first.

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