Wow. that's a really usefully integrated commenting system Jack has. I can see tons of applications for such a system. education, commenting on proposals, coding comments, etc, etc, etc! Karl, you're saying that Jack implementation is a custom job, right? Rick From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:31 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: checking on project practicality Hi Eric, What you've described sounds quite a bit like the comment system that Jack Slocum has in place on his site. The good news is that he has put it together with EXT, which is in the process of being ported to jQuery as a plugin, or plugin suite. You can check out an example here: http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/2006/12/17/how-to-create-a-reusable-ajax-driv en-web-dialog-a-working-example/ Cheers,
--Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On May 2, 2007, at 10:33 PM, abused by speech recognition wrote: forgive me if this is too off topic but this is a combination technical information and a request for Project help I would like to build an online tool for writers and I would like to see if it's practical to do at all let alone with jquery. the goal is to allow readers of a piece of work to insert in-line comments and for the author to be able to review all comments in context. the rough workflow would be something like bring up a piece of work in a browser, you are commenting on, through some activation technique (double click or something) bring up the text area (below, to one side, floating??) When the comment is finished, submission closes the text box, and leave a marker in the margin. Clicking the marker shows the highlighted region in the original text, and read-only comments. If you are the original creator, the comment could go up read/write. A later version (assuming the first one gets built) would allow you to switch between different versions of the main text with associated comments. This model of user interface for commenting on writing maps nicely to how people make comments on paper so it should be easily learned by those who hate wordprocessors. this user interface model should also be useful in a variety of ways beyond document reviews. For example, blog comments would be integrated to the part of the document the reader is commenting on instead of piled on at the end. But in order to implement this, I need some help. I can handle all of the server-side code and databases in Python just fine. The problem with me doing a JavaScript or even jQuery is that I would have to type. Yup, I'm one of those used-to-be-programmers permanently damaged by RSI and now I live with speech recognition. I could give you a long and detailed description of why programming by voice and JavaScript is like gargling broken glass but I want to save my voice. Like I said, my contribution would be server side and database plus a system for hosting a demonstration instance of the application. I'm hoping I can find a volunteer to do the browser side of the effort to team up with me on this project. I do believe that this type of commenting tool is a significant improvement over what's available today because it's: asynchronous mode of operation author never loses control of the document comments are collected logically according to section of document commented on comments are targeted to the section of document contentious or problem areas show up just by the number of comments indicated by the marginal marks it's geeky cool new user interface. Come on, you got to admit that. :-) again, I apologize if I stepped on any toes or part of the culture of the list. ---eric (really and truly abused by speech recognition. It makes mistakes, I correct some)
