[imc-uk-tech] Re: [Imc-uk-process] proposal - comments

[Martin Fitzpatrick]

mini mouse wrote:
> At 00:08 +0100 19/10/05, Chris wrote:
>> On Thu 13-Oct-2005 at 06:13:48PM +0100,
>> crash at subsection.org.uk wrote:
>>>  On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:15 +0100, Hamish wrote:
>>>
>>>  > > 2. Downplay the comments themselves by making new
>>>  > > comments default to being displayed as title and
>>>  > > author only.
>>
>> This is fairly simple to do, I have implemented it for the
>> uk templates on the dev server, eg:
>>
>>   http://uk.dev.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324048.html
>>
>> If people like it we can deploy it.
> 
> Presumably the title and author are live links to the comments 
> themselves...
> 
> Then what should happen? New Orleans
> 
> http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/5948.php
> 
> starts off like that, clicking any comments link turns it into a 
> newswire item with comments like ours. So although it requires an active 
> step to see the comments, click one and and you're back into the morass.
> 
> On the other hand, if it only shows one you're for ever clicking to and 
> fro..

Isn't this something that can be solved quite easily with a bit of CSS. 
You can easily have the comments & the news item appear on the same 
page, yet hide the comments under titles which open when clicked (or 
mouse-overed).  That way people make a conscious decision to view the 
comments yet no more pages (& server activity) is needed.

The mouse-over can be done with pure CSS.  On-clicking would take 
javascript (standard though).

> Maybe comments could open in a new, easily dispensed with, window? Does 
> MIR support things like "target=_new",?

Really would avoid windows.  Having said that, you can float divs 
(blocks of web-page) within a current page using the mentioned 
javascript/CSS. Similar things can be seen on a lot of messageboards 
which show a preview of a message in a a "tooltip" effect.

For an example see a site I developed, http://www.artifiction.com - and 
hover over one of the images.

Just my 2p.  Be kind, first post.


Martin Fitz