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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