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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:57PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:57PM (#192082) Journal

    I've already had mice where the wheel was so sensitive that it was hard to middle-click without at the same time scrolling, which of course is not good if you try to middle-click a link. So the power of the middle mouse button very much depends on the quality of your mouse.

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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:44PM

    by schad (2398) on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:44PM (#192151)

    It can be a little fidgety, but with practice you'll get it right about 90% of the time. And it's not like anyone dies if you scroll by accident (I hope).

    The real objection -- and I'm surprised nobody has brought it up yet -- is that middle click in X means "paste selection." In a browser it means paste-and-go.

    You can also use ctrl+left click.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:50PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:50PM (#192153) Journal

      It can be a little fidgety, but with practice you'll get it right about 90% of the time.

      Spoken like someone who never had a really bad mouse. I can assure you, with the wrong mouse you'll be lucky to get 50%.

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      • (Score: 2) by schad on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:09PM

        by schad (2398) on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:09PM (#192168)

        Quite possible. I'm a PC gamer so I do research mice before I buy them.

  • (Score: 2) by monster on Friday June 05 2015, @01:20PM

    by monster (1260) on Friday June 05 2015, @01:20PM (#192504) Journal

    At least on Firefox, ctrl+click is the same as middle-click.