Tuesday, April 12, 2005

From the Mod:

Looking for html writers and mods.

RULES
1. We do not speak of trainwreckspot.
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Reminder: Submission thread on the right.
Clicking the timestamp instead of the Comments link improves readability.
Original Date: 5/4/05

posted by Natasha @ 1:36 AM   13 tokes off a turd

13 Comments:

At 4/05/2005 2:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous snarked:
Uh, how do we not speak of the unspeakable when that's the name of this very blog?  
At 4/05/2005 2:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous snarked:
It's a fight club reference, dummy.  
At 4/05/2005 2:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous snarked:
Ah, sorry, never saw the movie.  
At 4/05/2005 4:05 AM, Blogger blog anon snarked:
I posted this at the very bottom thread, but since you asked here, I'll repeat myself -- seems that one of the "feature requests" has been threaded comments; hoever, it appears that LiveJournal is the only weblog software to offer threaded comments (link is in my original comment -- too lazy to recode here). So it appears that it can't be done, no matter how much of a CSS whiz you may be. There's still the possibility that the newspaper author doesn't know what he's talking about, though. I don't know if there's a way to add a "quote" button to the comments (a la SDMB), either.

Two comments on readability:
1. You may want to increase the width of the display. You can do that by changing the CSS from a fixed number of pixels to a percentage (e.g., 95%) of any user's display. Actually, I already have it saved as a text file; I'll email it to you (it's a pretty simple change, and I don't want to hack that much more into it).
2. From the readers' standpoint, clicking on the timestamp rather than the "comments" link leads to a better reading experience, in my experience anyway.  
At 4/05/2005 4:24 AM, Blogger Natasha snarked:
Thank you, any help is much appreciated.  
At 4/05/2005 10:25 AM, Blogger blog anon snarked:
This is interesting...if you enable the popup window for comments (Dashboard > Change Settings > Comments), if a person reads the comments by clicking on the timestamp, then clicks on the "Post a comment" link, a separate window will open for comment input. Well, duh, you say; however, the popup window is resizable, and more important, the comment-entry box resizes with it, meaning that a person has more room to type than this itty-bitty postage stamp that we have now.

The other reason I thought this is interesting is because (apparently) even with the popup enabled, if a reader clicked on the comments link from the main threads display, no popup will show, and will still get this default postage stamp. Seems like a bug on Blogger's part. I'll see if there's a way around it, but no promises.  
At 4/05/2005 10:43 AM, Blogger blog anon snarked:
Ah, it's just a cache issue. When I did a hard-refresh (Ctrl-F5), this inconsistency went away.  
At 4/05/2005 11:50 AM, Anonymous Anonymous snarked:
According to at lease one discussion, it still doesn't look doable. Props if you can figure it out, though.

One advantage, as it were, of having a strictly chronological comments display is that it's easy to see what the latest entries are, at the expense of being able to follow conversation threads.  
At 4/05/2005 2:21 PM, Blogger blog anon snarked:
Maybe a suggestion...

When one of you mods puts up a new OP, maybe you can make the link open up in a new window? This is done via:

[a href="http://blahblahblah.com" target="_new"]Look, linky![/a]
(replace <> for [], of course)

This wasn't a feature on LJ, I realize, but since we're all new here anyway, I figure this might be good to implement.  
At 4/05/2005 2:25 PM, Blogger blog anon snarked:
Oh well. I do, but to each his or her own, I guess.  
At 4/05/2005 10:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous snarked:
I'm a php/html coder. Tell me what you need done and I'll see what I can do.

wphill at mac do(spammersuckmyballs)t com  
At 4/06/2005 3:00 AM, Blogger Natasha snarked:
"When one of you mods puts up a new OP, maybe you can make the link open up in a new window?"
That annoys the hell out of me. Maybe you could just right click and hit open in new window?

I sent you mail meros.  
At 4/12/2005 8:59 AM, Blogger secretdubai snarked:
Do you need actual mods? Let me know - I'm in a time zone different to most, so could keep an eye on things when others are sleeping.  

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