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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 Immerman on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:12PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:12PM (#192092)

    The problem with Javascript, is that there's (currently) no convenient way to enable it just for the "good uses". If I enable Javascript for the limited-risk functionality on /., Soylent, etc. the floodgates are pretty much opened for any malicious exploits on any other site I visit.

    It would be nice if you could set your browser to "disable Javascript for all non-whitelisted sites" (presumably with an "enable Javascript for this site" button somewhere convenient), and/or a "Disable unsafe/invasive Javascript" option that would disallow all functions that potentially expose personal information or allow tampering with the PC. If the major browsers all agreed on a "safe function set" we could hope that honest javascript writers would tend to avoid the unsafe functions so that their scripts would run on secured browsers.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:50PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:50PM (#192129) Journal

    It would be nice if you could set your browser to "disable Javascript for all non-whitelisted sites" (presumably with an "enable Javascript for this site" button somewhere convenient),

    That's what NoScript does.

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