Fuddland

I’ve made slight changes to the “Post a comment” section for entries on this site, in order to—hopefully—make things slightly friendlier for all you lovely people who like to comment on my nonsense.

If [a] you’ve never commented before, or [b] you’ve opted not to save your user information, or [c] you don’t or can’t have Javascript enabled, then the comments section will appear essentially as before: the user information fields are first, then the textarea in which your write your comment, then the post and preview buttons [after the live comment preview if you have Javascript].

However, if you’ve previously commented and your details are stored in a cookie, things get switched around: instead of having to scroll or tab past the user information section, the comment textarea appears first, with the live preview and post/preview buttons below. The user information is displayed after these, since in general it’s probably not going to be changed very often.

Just in case you’ve altered your name [for, say, comic effect, you old wag you], it’s displayed just above the textarea in an Amazon-style “If you’re not Kev…”, with a link to jump to the user information section if you don’t happen to be Kev anymore.

I should mention that this isn’t an original idea, for fear of being accused of plagiarism: I nicked it from Dunstan and he explains the rationale pretty clearly.

#1

mrtn | 2004 / 10 / 01 – 13:11

heh, and *you* accused *me* of having too much time on my hands yesterday! ;)

#2

mrtn | 2004 / 10 / 01 – 13:14

also, if you’ve got a spare minute, maybe you could detect which skin people are using and insert .png images of screenshots of the appropriate skin? ;)

#3

David | 2004 / 10 / 01 – 15:18

Re #1: I don’t know what you mean—it only took me two minutes. [Plus an hour or so to debug my shoddy Javascript.] :P

Re #2: Ooh, if only I’d thought of that earlier… ;)

[Edited by commenter — 15:21]

#4

graeme | 2004 / 10 / 01 – 22:09

Amazon style? Does this mean my comments are delivered free if I make more than 25 quids’ worth?

…or are they waxed into a thin strip?

;o)

#5

David | 2004 / 10 / 02 – 01:03

Re #4: But Graeme, I can’t put a price on your comments. They’re worthless priceless. :P Oh, and that’s minus 5 geek points for knowing anything about bikini-line waxings. ;)

#6

graeme | 2004 / 10 / 02 – 01:34

I can convert that -5 points into +50: I have no first hand experience, all I know has been taught to me by web sites. You know those web sites.

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