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Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation

posted by NCommander on Thursday June 04 2015, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the lets-do-this-right dept.
So as the post-upgrade dust settles, one of the big things still left on our usability TODO list is implementing inline reply and moderation for the site. A quick survey of our developers is that no one here really is super experienced in writing JavaScript code, so I'm putting a call for help to find someone to help implement and write this. For anyone getting interested in SN development, this appears to be a straightforward task. Here's the official requirements for the feature.
  • A user should be able to post and moderate comments without a seperate page load
  • If JavaScript is disabled for whatever reason, the site must degrade to the current click-to-post functionality. We don't want to force people to enable JS if they don't wish to. Dynamically rewriting the DOM to change links may be necessary, but this can be discussed
  • The rehash API must be extended to add this functionality; this should be relatively easy and straight forward; we have parts of the original AJAX code so this functionality may already be in place.

  • Contact me, or paulej72 on IRC, or post a comment below if you're interested in helping.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by kbahey on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:38PM

    by kbahey (1147) on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:38PM (#192075) Homepage

    As someone who browsers with javascript disabled, this has not been an issue for me. Just right click and open in a new tab, and do your thing there, and close the tab. You are back to the page you were at. I have been doing this for a long time with SN and other sites that it is second nature to me.

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  • (Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Friday June 05 2015, @08:49AM

    by Ryuugami (2925) on Friday June 05 2015, @08:49AM (#192424)

    Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the "moderate" button, which I use much more often than "reply".

    My work-around (if you can call it that) is to glance to the scroll bar when clicking moderate, so I can quickly scroll back to the general vicinity of where I was...

    (BTW, at least in Firefox, middle-click or ctrl+left click both open links in new tab. I don't know if it works in other browsers.)

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