Improved commenting
Commenting is now nice and Ajax-y. Comments can be submitted, edited, and deleted without ever reloading the page. If you have JavaScript off or I wrote script wrong, it’ll still act like before. I made this change to address some of the confusion regarding how to link to other users and styles in comments - now all you have to do is press Submit and you can see it exactly as others would.
Also, people with OpenIDs but not yet registered on the site can enter their OpenID and comment in one step rather than having to register first, find their way back to the style, then comment.
I noticed that the comment textareas are squished in Opera and IE. I’m going to see what I can do about that once I get near a machine that can run either.
Update, Nov 13: There a few problems with the new code. Hopefully everything’s cleared up now.
October 27th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Turns out Opera and IE don’t like the :not pseudo-class, and were failing an entire rule that contained that on one of the selectors.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
One big problem I have encountered with commenting is that there is no way for the style author to interact with people who leave comments.
Many people will post a comment and say “Hey this is a great style, but is there a way I can change X element?” or “Does this style fix X problem as well?”
Since I cannot comment on my own styles and I cannot see their email address I have no way of responding to help them.
May I suggest either adding an “Author Response” comment system that doesn’t affect the rating or a “Ask Author a Question” link so that they can contact us?
April 24th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Sketchy, I intend to have the main site interact more with the forum - people will be able to post a “review” with the current system and a “question or comment” in a forum thread.