By looplog on

OK, I'm sure many may have encountered this on Digg, but this has to be seen to be believed. Personally, it is enough to make me want to switch back to Wordpress if it weren't for Drupal's architectural superiority for content management. Basically somebody has modified the WordPress comments system to utilise the Yahoo! UI Extensions library and the results are nothing short of phenomenal. Sincerely, if any Drupal developer can get this happening on my site, I will make a donation of $500 to the approporiate parties involved.

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drupalnesia’s picture

drupalnesia commented

great sample, I just download the lib and try to use on my local Drupal site.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

this is awesome!

I'd be interested in developing this into a module for Drupal. Couldn't start production for another week or so.

I'd go with jQuery + Thickbox and we'd probably want the tabs plugin for jQuery too.

http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs/

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looplog commented

Good to hear some development interest. Keep me posted. I'm specifically interested in the sidebar allowing the inline comments as I'm using Drupal in an academic supervision context. I presume you're thinking of jQuery for the popup comments? Any idea how it is implemented on that Wordpress site?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

jQuery's thickbox for the popup comments with the combo of the jQuery tabs plugin.

Wordpress, not too sure.. only touched that long time ago and stopped after i met drupal ... ahhh drupal :)

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alex_b commented

I am starting on a wrapper for stilbuero's tabs module right now.

former username: lx_barth

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alex_b commented

I am stopping with that wrapper module right now:
http://drupal.org/node/105374
:)

former username: lx_barth

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dvessel commented

That's really cool!!

Looks perfect for editors colaborating on an article. Not so sure about its' uses for a general site. Definitely spiffy though.

It would be sick if you could just turn it on temporarily when in the editing phase.

–joon

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ben928 commented

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rport commented

This looks very innovative... Well worth further investigation.
Russ

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Russ @ Firewize

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nevets commented

I like the system that you point out but I wonder if would work better as an annotation/feedback system that replacing Drupal core comments. The reason I think this while it is nice interface, I can not scroll down the page looking for the word 'new'. The way things work with Drupal, I see a thread I am interested in, click 'new', it shows me the oldest 'new' comment and I can simple scroll down looking for comments with the word new making it eay to keep up with the thread. I would not want to have to click on each "box" looking for new comments. On the other hand it would make it nice system for annotating documents that are being reviewed by others.

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C-Watootsi commented

The phpVoid blog has packaged Slocum's nifty commenting system as a plugin for Wordpress. Funky though it is, it needs seriously looking at from an accessibility perspective. For example, I don't think that it could be made to degrade gracefully on Drupal since comments are attached to single nodes, not block level element within the node itself.

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Phillip Mc commented

thanks for posting that. I was trying to work out how to apply the same sort of thing for things like the LOGIN BOX, ADVANCED SEARCH and maybe some ecommerce stuff.

looking forward to seeing what is the best way of applying those User Interface features are in Drupal.

phil

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donricha commented

I thought I was the only un-intuitive one.

The gross neglect of human factors aspects, particularly lack of consideration for newbies (level of knowledge), is pathetic. But like everyone elso, once I I figure something out, it just ins't worth complaining (or writing) about any more.

Such neglect comes with the Open Source territory. I am learning to live with that fact.

But I need your improvemnt (comments fix), whatever it is, for my new site.

Ns. What would I have to pay you to mentor me as I build my Drupal site?

donz@planetcomm.net