Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Jeffers
Angel - Funny that you mention those sites. My blog has actually made it into articles on SmashingMag for other reasons - not that anyone told me I just saw it in the referring sites and investigated :) What are your jquery resources? I merely used the jQuery API to pick it up. I was using

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Jeffers
Yeah I am still debating how to handle that and am interested in feedback. I was considering one of these options: 1. A lightbox method, providing the comment form and a live preview. 2. Having the respond button expand on click into a floating window containing the comment form. 3. Taking more

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-14 Thread Angel Marquez
I like #2 and had envisioned it like so. I think the lightbox craze needs to shift gears. I sware when I posted to jQ about putting forms into lightboxes every web app or site I used came out with it about month later. it ruined my unveiling... Oh well. I wanted to post again because I do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-14 Thread Angel Marquez
*Totally off subject* (my favorite subject) 2 excerpts from books that have nothing to do with IxDA but made me think of my recent surge of participation. I think you might like it. The Emerging Film Composer Richard Bellis When there is an overabundance of apprentices the economy of that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-14 Thread Angel Marquez
I read some of your blog. Feet Foxes 'Mykonos' got a lot of airplay on my system. : ) On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.comwrote: *Totally off subject* (my favorite subject) 2 excerpts from books that have nothing to do with IxDA but made me think of my

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-10 Thread Angel Marquez
*feature request*Would you make it so after selecting one line I could hold down command on a mac or ctrl on a pc and select multiple lines and then inject that into a an unordered list? I find myself pulling more than one line of a time I want to be comment specific about. This came to me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-09 Thread Sterling Koch
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:50 PM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog I recently went about messing around with jQuery to produce a simple proof of concept of what can be done to enhance discussions on blogs. This could be applicable in other

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-09 Thread victor zambrano
It looks great. Seems right for revising text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36941 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-09 Thread Angel Marquez
That is pretty slick and useful. I use '' all the time. I will credit you when I steal it. The blog name threw me for a loop... I'm kind of into jquery and wordpress at the moment. The worpress admin for 2.7 is prettty awesome. This applies to that CMS post as well. I've been tinkering with the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-09 Thread jason z
Good stuff. A quick thought: rather than scroll the page to the bottom when replying to a comment, can you instead put the 'create comment' interface in a floaty panel just below the comment you are responding to? (Inline below might be confusing). As for jQuery resources, I am really digging

[IxDA Discuss] Experimental Commenting System on my Blog

2009-01-07 Thread Jim Jeffers
I recently went about messing around with jQuery to produce a simple proof of concept of what can be done to enhance discussions on blogs. This could be applicable in other discussion forums as well. I borrowed a few ideas from others. Credit is given where due. You can check it out here: