Ooh. Prettiness personified in a web application. Jack Slocum has used the Yahoo! UI libraries in WordPress to create a very interesting new comments system. Aside from the fact that the popping outness and Sky Sports-esque ‘whooshing’ of dialogs opening this makes for a very interesting comments system whereby someone can comment on any one block of text or an image in a posting rather than just comment at the end.
It reminds me somewhat of browser plugin tools in the past that have done this (I can’t for the life of me remember the name of a browser plugin I installed maybe 4 years ago that did just this osrt of thing), or equally what Internet Explorer was trying to achieve with the ‘Discussion’ button in previous versions.
Anyway, I suppose what Jack has done here is all within the browser (what kind of load all that JavaScript is putting on your poor PC I don’t know) and doesn’t require plugins. The battle between, AJAX and Flash, Rich and Reach, thick and thin, desktop and browser, client and server rages still.
Fight, fight, fight… pile on!
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It’s faster than Java, but that’s not saying much. I briefly comtemplated installing it, then wisely decided against it.
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