Comment UI Updates
Published Fri, Nov 24 2006 9:59 PM
Technorati Tags: Software Development, Blogging
I spent some time yesterday and today working on a new Comments module. I was using Haloscan for comments, but I always wanted to write my Comments UI and comment handler.
The new UI will show up on the post detail page. If you're using Internet Explorer there will be a link just after the post with the link text "Add your comment!". If you click on this link an inline comment form will appear where you can enter your comments. If you're using any other browser, the comments form will appear inline on the post detail page.
The new comments module replaces Haloscan. I exported all of the Haloscan comments and imported them into my back end. I will implement a sidebar widget similar to the Haloscan recent comments widget in the next couple of days.
The new UI should work for most of you. I've tried it on IE 6.0, IE 7.0, and Firefox 2.0 with success. I haven't gotten it working quite right for Opera, and I don't have Safari to test it with. I will probably implement a down-level comment box for those browsers this weekend.
Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Update: I've fixed the support for Opera and other browsers like Safari that don't support the rich UI. Hopefully now everyone can use the new UI.
I will have a recent comments widget added to the sidebar sometime this weekend. The five most recent comments will be listed in a fashion similar to the one provided by the Haloscan widget.
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