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[tools-yak@collab] Re: Improved recursing comments page

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From: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:28:48 -0000
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On 27 Feb 2004 at 14:10, Eric Armstrong wrote:    (01)

> Really nice demo. And thanks for the warning at the top!
> 
> Somehow, the doublespacing between paragraphs stopped
> after para 5. (Mozilla 1.6, win2k) Not sure why.
I might have forgotten to put the necessary class attribute for the 
CSS on the top level DIV elements below para 5.
And it doesn't appear to work at all in Netscape 4.73 (the only 
version of NS I have to test on at present). Since I stuck to ECMA as 
far as I can see it can only be DOM or CSS support of some sort that 
doesn't work.
Any Moz users out there have problems with it?    (02)

> 
> That's done with javascript, huh? Clever hack.
Thanks. Yes, all javascript. The next stage is to get comments 
echoing back to a server-side mirror of the doc. (I may be some 
time...)    (03)

I also have another approach brewing in my head, a bit like Matt's 
use of psAhoy but with just sentence granularity that uses basic 
javascript - no range APIs and such.
I have the javascript to pick up the sentences, and it might even be 
possible to get a character count out of  a browser too, but I'm not 
sure yet.
Again, I would seek to embed comments in the client document while 
echoing them back behind the scenes.    (04)

The question is then what the addressing should look like. I haven't 
really thought that far yet. An initial version can just rely on 
attaching comments to the latest version of everything, but if we 
want interfaces that, say, walk code repositories where comments on 
versions might matter...    (05)

> That will
> be really useful in a generated Wiki-style spec like
> Murray has been recommending.    (06)

Um, I think I've missed that. What was that? Murray? Someone?    (07)

> 
> Peter P. Jones wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've updated my recursing comments *demo* page so that the comments
> > do actually recurse in the display and not just in the markup. At
> > last I found the fix.
> > 
> > http://www.concept67.fsnet.co.uk/temp/comment_test_p.html
> > 
> > The javascript is free to use as you wish.
> > 
> > Feedback welcomed.
> > 
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