I have been wondering about the Chat post format for a while and somehow it seems that the current interpretation of pasting a conversation in the post content is too simplistic. I was thinking if a post (that uses the Chat format) + all its comments can be thought of as a chat conversation instead. <br>
<br>This will also mean that rather than the typical protocol of displaying only posts on the landing page or in archive views (index.php, category.php etc), for a chat you could display both, posts and their comments. For all other post formats only the post is displayed with a link to comments. Of course, styling has to be handled quite differently for a comment on a chat post as opposed to that of a regular post.<br>
<br>Thoughts?<br><br>Sayontan.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Good morning Reviewers and Developers,<div><br></div><div>I noticed this morning that WPCOM released a new Theme:</div><div><a href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/next-saturday/" target="_blank">http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/next-saturday/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>What jumped out at me particularly was the handling of the Chat Post Format type. The Theme is using p:nth-child(odd) to apply bolding to every other paragraph.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice approach! I may look at using a similar technique.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Note that the Theme Unit Test Data already separates each chat entry/line using paragraphs. I would assume that this would be fairly normal procedure for writing a "chat" post.)</div><div><br>
</div><font color="#888888"><div>Chip</div>
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