2/9/2005

12 Responses to “Live Preview of Comments”

1. Patterico,

   Can you please point me at the code you used to do this? This would be perfect for what I’m calling blogalogging, a real-time, live conversation between two or more participants, that is immediately visible to the blog readers.

   Thanks,

   Steve
   DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS

   Steve Bragg (9279e5) — 2/9/2005 @ 9:56 am

   
   

2. Steve, I used the plugin published here.

   OF Jay (aa85b2) — 2/9/2005 @ 10:56 am

   
   

3. Oh, great, thanks One Fine Jay.

   Steve Bragg (9279e5) — 2/9/2005 @ 12:00 pm

   
   

4. Gimme some lovin’. This is great, but don’t you worry that people will be so dazzled by this space-age goodness (AKA bad radness) that they’ll forget what they meant to comment on? Bluh.

   Lance McCord (660d59) — 2/9/2005 @ 12:51 pm

   
   

5. Okay, I’m checking it out now….

   Wow, that is weird. I suppose I can get use to seeing the comment show up both at and below my insert point as I type, but it’s also somewhat distracting.

   Is there some reason this software can’t preview comments the old-fashioned way — where one clicks “preview” or somesuch instead of “post?”

   Okay, it’s not as bad as I thought: as soon as you write long enough, the visible preview scrolls off the bottom, so you no longer see the letters appearing below your typed line. I guess this is workable.

   I do think it’s a bit of techno triumphalism, however. Show-offy for no particular benefit. Maybe I’m too retro.

   Dafydd

   Dafydd (df2f54) — 2/9/2005 @ 1:48 pm

   
   

6. Believe it or not Dafydd, I’ve found implementing a preview button much more… difficult. I don’t consider it show-offy, I for one don’t look at the live preview until I’m done leaving a comment. It does, however, save commenters a page load and a click.

   OF Jay (aa85b2) — 2/9/2005 @ 3:16 pm

   
   

7. This is BOSS, Patterico! WeeeHEEEE! Heh, now all you need is live spellchekcing.

   Now … if you can just bring xrlq up to speed; he desperately needs this at his blog! 🙂

   clark smith (4de06f) — 2/10/2005 @ 1:40 am

   
   

8. Test! This is weird! How I can link.

   OK. Sweet.

   This would be really useful in the blogger’s private posting area (by blogger I mean me). It’s so easy to get tags wrong. And the title attribute for links works! I think I’ll steal it.

   Brian O'Connell (69c9fc) — 2/10/2005 @ 7:28 am

   
   

9. I hate this Live Preview feature. What I’d like to see is an input text box which has more than 5 lines.

   Ladainian (91b3b2) — 2/10/2005 @ 8:18 am

   
   

10. MSN I NIIPET
    MSN

    Bill (bdff36) — 5/31/2007 @ 11:30 am

    
    

11. Very helpful

    流水线 (767e41) — 6/14/2007 @ 5:31 am

    
    

12. A day is a miniature of eternity.

    流水线 (d0b9f9) — 7/29/2007 @ 6:32 pm