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WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI

November 2, 2006 in Web Implementation
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/3035

For quite some time I have wanted to upgrade my WordPress comments system. I had some free time yesterday so I decided to go through the WordPress internals and figure out how some of it worked. Before I knew what had happened, it was 3:00am and I had a working prototype. It worked so well in my preliminary testing, I decided to deploy it to my blog and see what you guys thought.  I think it turned out to be a perfect example of what can be done in a very small amount of time with Yahoo UI and YAHOO.ext. Link >>

I just ran across this site while searching for help related to the Yahoo! Grid Library.  With the ability to assign a comment to a specific part of a post, this is the most advanced blog commenting I’ve ever seen.

Wow.

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  1. salguod on January 30, 2007

    It’s pretty nifty, but, how does it work in conversation?

    I can see it becoming both a conversation killer and an enhancement.

    A killer by fragmenting the discussion so that the synergies and tangents of diverse ideas in a single thread generate that sometimes drive things into new places.

    An enhancement by spawning several threads from a single article, moving away in different directions at once.

    Pretty cool though.

  2. Michael Boyink (Author) on January 30, 2007

    I guess I was looking at it from the EE weblog point of view, where comments can be added to any content type - not just blog posts.

    Then this approach becomes a document review - think of the post being a contract, etc where multiple parties have input on a more granular level.

    Kinda gets at some of the advantages of wikis, but still keeping the original author in control of the source doc.

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