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

[Brad Anderson]

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