I’m trying to add comment previews. This version of comment previews is “live” - that is, instead of hitting a “preview” button to create a preview, the preview automatically appears at the bottom of the page as you type.
If this works, then I owe thanks to Fernando, who explained how to install this plugin in terms I could understand.
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January 16th, 2005 at 7:58 am
Testing, testing. Damn - it doesn’t seem to be working. What did I do wrong?
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January 16th, 2005 at 8:04 am
Okay, trying again. Oh, hey, that’s much better. Cool!
Hey, kids, we have comment previews!
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January 16th, 2005 at 9:29 am
That’s way cool.
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January 16th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
This is a deeply weird experience. Weird. Hrm. Typing HTMl tags and having them not appear is especially bizarre.
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January 16th, 2005 at 8:52 pm
FWIW…To me it feels like I’m typing in mud — or on some mainframe computer that has to echo back anything I t ype. Ack!!! Personally I don’t like the experience. It makes it hard to type.
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January 16th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
Media Girl, try scrolling up just enough that the comment box is at the very bottom of the screen. Then you won’t see the preview area.
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January 16th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
This is great, thanks for doing this — mainly because I methodically went through that file and pulled out all the relevant javascript and added it to my MT blog entry templates.
Of course, I realized later I could have just done a view source right here and saved myself the trouble of having to cut out various escapes, but…
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January 17th, 2005 at 5:24 am
How does this work? Oh, I see! Neat!
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January 17th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
That doesn’t work for me, Robert. In fact, I did not realize the echo was there until I scrolled down for the preview button. I just thought my computer was choking on some javajunk applet or something.
BTW, it’s better today. Not sure why. So maybe I hereby retract my earlier comments.
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