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Comments: You said it, we did it

In a previous posting,

I covered an attempt to streamline the Blogware UI. Rather than state

my opinion on the change, I asked for yours, and got lots of responses,

all saying the same thing: bad idea.

Comments in Blogware now work this way…

If an entry has no comments, you’ll see this at the end of the entry:

Leave Comment | Permanent Link

If an entry has comments, you’ll see this at the end of the entry:

Comments (n) | Permanent Link

where n is the number of comments posted for the article.

You’ll still have to click on the permanent link for the article to see

the trackbacks, but we believe that comments are generally of more

interest to more people. The general idea is to stramline the

interface, making it a simple as possible, but no simpler.

Thank you for your feedback. It’s what helps us make our software better!

Joey deVilla

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  • Looking into that. I'm the only one involved with Blogware who uses a Mac as his primary machine, so the developers don't notice things unless I send them screen shots, which I'll do more often.

    I'm also looking into why the WYSIWYG editor refuses to work under Safari. It works under Mozilla/Mac OS X, so it should be possible. I'm currently using my developer schmooze powers to talk to the Safari development team.

    Keep those cards and letters coming!

  • What about putting trackbacks inline with comments, and in the "by" line put "via trackback" or something? Just to simplify things further.

  • We talked about it, but trackbacks contain a lot less "data" than comments. I mean, a trackback usually contains an excerpt which (at least in the mockups I did) looked really dumb when mingled with the comments. And then comes the issue of replying to trackbacks via another comment...

    In principle, I still want to do it, but we haven't devoted sufficient processing time to working through all of the niggly issues...

  • We talked about it, but trackbacks contain a lot less "data" than comments. I mean, a trackback usually contains an excerpt which (at least in the mockups I did) looked really dumb when mingled with the comments. And then comes the issue of replying to trackbacks via another comment...

    In principle, I still want to do it, but we haven't devoted sufficient processing time to working through all of the niggly issues...

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