[wp-hackers] Threaded Comments

ddaulton at ursastudios.com ddaulton at ursastudios.com
Fri Oct 29 19:11:01 UTC 2004


Carl Corliss, the author of the threaded comments system for Xaraya (xaraya.com)
 may be able to offer some insight.  He is a friend and I know how much thought
and effort went into the Xaraya comments system.  If you think it would be
helpful, I put you guys in touch with him.

Doug

Quoting Matthew Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>:

> Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > 1) It uses a whole new wp-comments* set of files (which might be
> > unavoidable anyways)
> 
> This shouldn't be needed.
> 
> > 2) It uses javascript DOM (which makes it not-so-universally-useful)
> 
> As long as it degrades gracefully it should be alright. (A nice 
> unordered list?)
> 
> > 3) It adds a column to a table, which might be unavoidable as well...
> 
> Since 1.2 or before I believe we've had comment_parent field in wp_comments.
> 
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