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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.
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Contact me, or paulej72 on IRC, or post a comment below if you're interested in helping.
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Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:17PM
Most of the visitors of this site probably browse without javascript enabled. There are a lot of reasons [stackexchange.com]. My own reason is mostly to do with security, which is why I'm only willing to enable it in Internet Explorer at work (because that was the browser given to me by IT, as configured by IT, so they are responsible for its security).
A secondary reason for me to disable javascript is to prevent animation, since I have adult ADHD, which makes animated pages very difficult to read. Disabling javascript disables most animated advertisements, and gif animation can be disabled manually. Unfortunately, CSS animation is getting more prevalent, so I'm still looking for a solution to that.
Would you really not miss any of the commenters here who browse without javascript? Before you answer, you should look at some of the other top level comments in this discussion. There are a lot of people here who don't use javascript.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @08:46PM
NoScript is your friend. Using it to selectively enable Javascript blocks 99% of ads, and those that still display aren't annoying. Not that SoylentNews has ads anyway, but even on the green site I've enabled Javascript for their domains, but don't see any ads because I don't have any Javascript enabled for the advertisers domains.
It can be a pain getting some sites working with NoScript, but if you block all Javascript anyway, you likely wouldn't be bothered by that as those sites wouldn't work anyway.
And personally, I wouldn't expect most IT departments to configure things correctly for security, most just focus on getting things to work and unless they are mandated to use some security feature, they will throw security out the window if they think it will help get something working. But maybe your IT can competently manage security.
And personally, I wouldn't expect most IT departments to configure things correctly for security, most just focus on getting things to work and unless they are mandated to use some security feature, they will throw security out the window if they think it will help get something working. But maybe your IT can competently manage security.