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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:50PM (#192059)

    I read the article, but it becomes too complex without javascript.

    I posted a comment below yours that has the code needed to go ahead and do what's necessary.

    Trust me, I'm a web developer!

    https://darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca [darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca] :D

  • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:19PM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:19PM (#192102) Homepage

    You are mis-understanding. The current functionality will remain completely un-changed for those with javascript disabled. I.e. we will use JS for the inline commenting, and for those with it disabled functionality will revert back to exactly what we have now.

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    (Score:1^½, Radical)

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:32PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:32PM (#192114) Journal
    And I get a certificate warning when I click on your link - so I won't be opening that either.

    • (Score: 2) by bryan on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:26PM

      by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:26PM (#192143) Homepage Journal

      You get a certificate warning on SN's own dev site: https://dev.soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:52PM

        by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:52PM (#192156) Homepage

        True, but we trust ourselves = )

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        (Score:1^½, Radical)

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:04PM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:04PM (#192200) Journal
        Yes I did, but I also talk to the people running the site and know why. And now I don't get the warning because I can trust the key that I have. But that doesn't mean I'm going to log on to every other site that displays a warning.

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday June 05 2015, @06:45AM

          by TheRaven (270) on Friday June 05 2015, @06:45AM (#192391) Journal
          Is there a reason why it's using an unsigned (not even self-signed) cert? StartSSL provides free signing with a fairly small amount of effort...
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          sudo mod me up

  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:48PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:48PM (#192191) Journal

    Trust me, I'm a web developer!

    Mandatory "Princess Bride" response: "No good, I've known too many Web Developers!"