LWN Comment Features
| From: | Jason Smith <jhs-AT-proven-corporation.com> | |
| To: | letters-AT-lwn.net | |
| Subject: | LWN Comment Features | |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:55:19 +0700 | |
| Message-ID: | <46EE7937.8010009@proven-corporation.com> |
I wrote a couple of Greasemonkey scripts to do interesting things with the LWN comments. I don't know if "improvement" is the right word, so I'll say that I implemented features that people seem to talk about a lot in the threads. The first script makes subscriber comments more prominent than those from guests. Guest comments are a dull color and only the subject and author are visible by default (collapsed view). The next script collapses guest comments and also previously-seen comments. When you load an article, Firefox remembers every comment ID. When you come back tomorrow, you will see only the comments posted since then. In all cases, you can click a View/Hide button to toggle visibility on individual comments. See http://www.proven-corporation.com/~jhs/lwn/ for screenshots and downloads. -- Jason Smith Proven Corporation Bangkok, Thailand http://www.proven-corporation.com
Posted Sep 20, 2007 7:31 UTC (Thu)
by jbw (guest, #5689)
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I'm personally not interested in distinguishing between subscribers
Something I think would be really lovely would be a way to see a
Is it possible that LWN could somehow turn these Greasemonkey scripts
Joe
Sounds great! I hope more things like this are done.LWN Comment Features
and guests. So for me it would be nice to be able to completely turn
that portion of the scripts off.
collapsed title-and-author-only tree view of the comment threads for
each article directly in the weekly edition. That is, it would be
nice to see this without needing to visit a separate web page for the
comments of an article.
into ordinary web page scripts that come with the web page whenever it
is viewed?