Click to collapse would be pretty cool. But, while you're at it... 
mentioned before, but it'd be cool to have an expand/collapse button on 
all cuts. It's my favorite LJ_addons feature, but it'd be awesome if it 
was built in to DW.

Emily Ravenwood wrote:
> All right, let's see about this, then.  The basic "click here to  
> collapse" function is extremely simple.  I'd be willing to write it  
> up, or, more precisely, paste one of the versions I use elsewhere and  
> edit it.  The two difficult parts with implementing this are:
>
> 1) Making it persistent, which I don't know how to do, off the cuff.   
> Does anyone happen to have the cookie-checking script this would need  
> lying around?
>
> 2) This is generally either a Javascript or an Ajax thing.  Journal  
> themes do not permit those, because of the security risk inherent,  
> something I can't see changing any time soon.  So this bit of code  
> would have to be added into the Core.  Does the Styles team think  
> this is a possibility, supposing the script itself is put together  
> and offered?
>
> Associated issue:
>
> Javascript or Ajax?  Javascript means each collapse would reload the  
> whole page, which could be both unwieldy and possibly prohibitive in  
> bandwidth depending on how the reading page is getting called.  Ajax,  
> however, is on the "not accessibility friendly" list, and using that  
> would limit who can actually use this function.  Can someone who  
> deals with the site load say whether using Javascript is a deal  
> breaker?  And can the people who would likely use this say whether a  
> reload for every collapse would be too much trouble for the pay-off?
>
> Cheers,
> ER
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