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In the latest tech note that will inevitably become an open thread, still more outdated code has been trimmed, modernized, and tightened up in the LGF Blog Engine templates. The comment entry form that registered users see is now table-free, using floated elements to create a table-like look for the ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments, Optimization, CSS
Behind the scenes, the LGF Blog Engine code is being radically reworked, especially in pages with comments. By optimizing the HTML/Javascript/CSS design, we’ve managed to reduce the size (defined as the amount of HTML code it takes to render the comment in your browser) of each individual comment by about ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments, Optimization
It’s time to reload the page, as we’ve made structural changes to the HTML and Javascript code to make comments pages significantly smaller and less complex, which should help keep the hamsters from going totally insane.
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments
It took less than seven months to get from five million comments to the milestone we reached early this morning—comment number six million. Woo hoo! Comment #6,000,000 was posted by “Equable,” who broke through the barrier with an appropriate sound effect.
LGF, Comments, 6M, six million
If we continue at the current rate of comment posting, comment #6,000,000 will be posted at LGF some time within the next 10 days. Thought you might like to know.
LGF, Comments, 6M, six million
Several readers have suggested an open thread for the community to share their remembrances of September 11, 2001, and that sounds like an excellent idea to me. Please keep comments on-topic in this thread, and refrain from political statements; and please only post spinoff links related to the topic. ...
A very common complaint I receive about the comment rating system is that people accidentally hit the wrong button—resulting in a plus where they intended a minus, or vice versa. So now, after clicking the plus or minus button, the opposite button will still be active and clicking it will ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, Comment Ratings
In our comment entry form, I’m trying out a new way of inserting the HTML tags for bold, italics, etc., based on a very nice plugin for the jQuery Javascript library titled markItUp. This plugin has several improvements over the code I was using, and is more cross-browser compatible, so ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, MarkItUp
I received a couple of emails last night asking what happened to the lists of news sites and blogs that were in our right sidebar for years. They’re still here! Those sections have now been moved to the left sidebar, in that collection of “flippy triangle” menus. Just click the ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, flippy triangles
The LGF interface cleanup continues; the “News/Opinion” and “Anti-Idiotarians” sections that used to be in our right sidebar have been moved to the left sidebar and set up as Flippy Triangle menus. (“Anti-Idiotarians” has been renamed to “Blogs.”) Both of these sections are dynamically refreshed via Ajax each time you ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, flippy triangles
I’ve been using that Flippy Triangle technique to organize more of the stuff that used to be visible by default in our left sidebar, like the Statistics, the Tag Cloud, and the contact form. This user interface saves a lot of space; in fact, the sidebar looks almost naked with ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, flippy triangles
You may have noticed that I've organized the stuff in our left sidebar with a series of "accordion" menus; some call this style the Flippy Triangle, since a little triangle indicates whether the menu is currently expanded or not, by ... flipping, believe it or not. Here's the technique I'm ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface, flippy triangles
You might have noticed that I’ve gotten rid of those pop-out menus in the left sidebar, and redesigned that section to use the same expandable “accordion” menus as the “LGF Headlines” and “Recent Comments.” Two benefits to this tweak: 1) It eliminates one jQuery plugin from our lineup of Javascript ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, User Interface
The LGF CommentSpy has been renamed simply “LGF Spy,” because its powers have been greatly expanded with little or no congressional oversight. In a nutshell, the LGF Spy now displays nearly every user-initiated action (comments, spinoff links, or ratings) that happens at LGF, in very close to real time. (Every ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, jQuery, Javascript, CommentSpy, LGF Spy
We’re unveiling a new feature for registered LGF users — the dreaded nefarious CommentSpy. The link shows up in your login panel at the top of the left sidebar. When you click that link, a new window opens displaying the most recent 10 comments posted in all front page articles ...
To make it more obvious which “pseudo-links” will cause some hidden content to slide into view, they’re now styled in green, with little “flippy triangles” to show that clicking them will display their associated content. Also, the “LGF Headlines,” “Recent Comments,” and “Top 10 Comments” all use a similar collapsible ...
In our left sidebar you will now discover a widget titled “Top 10 Comments.” When you click it, you’ll see the top-rated comments posted by LGF lizards during the last 24 hours. The list of top comments is produced with an Ajax call, so it updates each time it’s displayed. ...
Actually, they’re “regressions,” not “adjustments.” Versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer have bugs that prevent our new comment reporting and user profile features from working correctly; it appears that these versions of IE get very cranky if you try to create an IFRAME via Javascript that fills the entire ...
Internet Explorer, Javascript, BlockUI, jQuery, Report, Comments, Tech Note, LGF
As we continue to Ajaxify the LGF Blog Engine, the latest new feature is the user profile display, which appears when you click on a commenter’s personal icon. (Or if they haven’t uploaded a personal icon, the tiny green football.) Instead of opening a new window with the profile data, ...
LGF, Ajax, Javascript, Tech Note, jQuery, dialog box, Comments, profiles
To help us keep track of what’s going on in our comments, tonight we have some new features in our “report” function. The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no longer a text link labeled “report” in the top line of each comment. Instead, there’s an icon that’s supposed ...
LGF, Tech Note, Comments, Report, jQuery, BlockUI, Javascript
In an article about Ted Kennedy, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz suddenly lashes out at Michelle Malkin for comments posted at her blog: Howard Kurtz - A Day of Sadness. (A digression: Michelle Malkin is among those conservatives asking readers to put aside political differences and pray for Kennedy ...
LGF, Washington Post, Media Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Comments, Hate Speech, Ted Kennedy
Anyone know what this page at Carnegie Mellon means? It’s some kind of experiment that involves comments posted at LGF, and I have a feeling it’s not friendly. Here’s a directory index. UPDATE at 5/16/08 8:40:05 am: They finally got around to closing their directory indexes; some administrator had quite ...
I’ve been experimenting for a while with a system that gives certain trusted “monitor lizards” the ability to delete abusive/offensive comments, and things seem to be working very well, so here’s the official announcement: we’ve got monitor lizards! (Some of you probably figured it out already.) I set it up ...
We’ve reached another grim milestone at LGF, 242 days after the last grim milestone, another seven months and 27 days of tormenting (not necessarily in this order): CAIR, the legions of swarming mindless moonbats, and the occasional irate Euro-crypto-Nazi-trollsockmoby. LGF lizard victor_yugo suggested a nice little database query that let ...
I had to step out for a little while, and when I returned ... FIVE MILLION comments! Woot! Later today I’ll do some calculations to figure out exactly which comment was number 5M. Meanwhile here’s an open 5M party thread...