Lucy Perry develops the box at the bottom of every page which lets users add something without editing the whole page.
Occasional, in accurate triggering of conflict detection fixed
Oops - clicking on the submit comment button when there's nothing in the box deletes everything on the page!
[note from Lucy Perry 1/25/04 -- this is now fixed]
Possible improvements
Would it be possible, without getting to whiz-bang or complicated (eg no reloading of the page), for the comment box to be able to toggle open and closed? Here's a site i've seen doing this:
That would involve javascript. Didn't some of us want to avoid javascript? -- Lucy Perry
Yes, javascript, though very useful, can cause some accessibility issues. I don't object to javascript, just its use if we don't *really* need it. My two cents is to keep the comment box the way it is. It doesn't get in the way, it works great, and it's accessibility will hopefully encourage posts from people who are reluctant to edit the page. -- Andy Fluke
Do we just want the comments added at the end like this? Should they be marked explicitly as "comment" or marked with a name?
I had a minor problem posting a comment. The first two times I tried I received the "someone else is editing this page warning". I ignored it the first time and started over without saving. Again I received the warning. I saved to "combine" both edits the third time I tried to post a comment and it worked. I don't know what it means but I wanted to share my experience since there didn't appear to be any other changes being made by other users. --Andy
Now the comment field seems to be working fine for me. --Andy
I see what you mean about the error. I wonder why it happens sometimes and sometimes not. -- Lucy
test
It worked fine just now.
Strange. I suppose I need to look more closely at the locking/unlocking mechanism. -- Lucy
Yah. I just tried opened a page twice. Saved one, and when i saved the second it just over-wrote the first. The comments feature has been working since the first couple of times though. --John
A feature that Ncdd Wiki has added to Wikki Tikki Tavi.
Development history
2004 January
Lucy Perry develops the box at the bottom of every page which lets users add something without editing the whole page.
Occasional, in accurate triggering of conflict detection fixed
Oops - clicking on the submit comment button when there's nothing in the box deletes everything on the page!
[note from Lucy Perry 1/25/04 -- this is now fixed]
Possible improvements
Would it be possible, without getting to whiz-bang or complicated (eg no reloading of the page), for the comment box to be able to toggle open and closed? Here's a site i've seen doing this:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100269/
That would involve javascript. Didn't some of us want to avoid javascript? -- Lucy Perry
Yes, javascript, though very useful, can cause some accessibility issues. I don't object to javascript, just its use if we don't *really* need it. My two cents is to keep the comment box the way it is. It doesn't get in the way, it works great, and it's accessibility will hopefully encourage posts from people who are reluctant to edit the page. -- Andy Fluke
Do we just want the comments added at the end like this? Should they be marked explicitly as "comment" or marked with a name? I had a minor problem posting a comment. The first two times I tried I received the "someone else is editing this page warning". I ignored it the first time and started over without saving. Again I received the warning. I saved to "combine" both edits the third time I tried to post a comment and it worked. I don't know what it means but I wanted to share my experience since there didn't appear to be any other changes being made by other users. --Andy Now the comment field seems to be working fine for me. --Andy
I got that error too on Ncdd Wiki, but not on John Abbe.
I see what you mean about the error. I wonder why it happens sometimes and sometimes not. -- Lucy test It worked fine just now. Strange. I suppose I need to look more closely at the locking/unlocking mechanism. -- Lucy Yah. I just tried opened a page twice. Saved one, and when i saved the second it just over-wrote the first. The comments feature has been working since the first couple of times though. --John
Delete Me -- just testing