By kvarnelis@drupal.org on

Drupal 5.0 makes it much easier to put comments on the side, but is there anybody out there who has had success with this ?

Ultimately, I'd love to get something like the paragraph level commenting at http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/ working for me, but that site uses Wordpress.

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mjohnq3’s picture

mjohnq3 commented

You could probably modify one of the posted PHP Block snippets. There is one called: List users who have recently updated their blog that might be able to be used for this.

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C-Watootsi commented

Interesting topic, which deserves a better response! Drupal hasn't increased the granularity of its commenting system. Let's say you wanted to drop a document into Drupal, and allow readers the ability to comment on each paragraph. This is not possible (at the time of writing) unless you make each paragraph a node, and run it through Views with some heavy theming to give it the appearance of a single document.

The Future of the Book site you mention above makes extensive use of Yahoo! UI components, and seem inspired by the paragraph level commenting on the blog of wunderkind Jack Slocum. I've seen that particular form of commenting packaged for both Wordpress and Django, but it hasn't (yet!) made it to Drupal. There are some very tough usability and accessibility issues that accompany it though.

More generally, Comment on This is - in my view - the more promising initiative taken to create a more useful way to comment on documents, without forgetting everything about web standards etc.