[thesite] comments on test.evolt.org

Bruce Heerssen bheerssen at visualbridge.tv
Wed Jun 27 16:12:15 CDT 2001


.jeff wrote:

>bruce,
>
>:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>: From: Bruce Heerssen
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>: 'Scuse me if I butt in here:
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>sure, no problem.  it's good to see you can handle the heat in the kitchen.
>*grin*
>
Heh, is it hot in here? I hadn't noticed ;)

OK, you've just about sold me. I take it that the comments are meant to 
be displayed only if the user has not read them, which is determined by 
either a cookie or stored prefs. That's pretty good when the comments 
get really long, as they sometimes do. But I still don't think there's 
anything inherently wrong with having to scroll a little. Hell, you 
usually have to scroll just to get to the comments in the first place.

Are you sure that you want to be parsing the user_agent string 
server-side? Can you really be certain of it's accuracy, that you've 
accounted for all the variations in format? I'm not saying don't use it, 
just use it carefully.

And as for the mozilla bug, it might be worth checking the stats on that 
one. I would suspect usage of Mozilla is higher for evolt than for most 
other sites. But maybe not, mozilla is supposed to release the 1.0 
version sometime relatively soon, so that bug may well dissappear.

Just trying to cover all the bases...

Bruce





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