New Ajax Commenting & Bookmarking Console at Gadgetizer.com

September 25, 2006 | In: General

I’ve just finished installing a new Ajaxified Commenting & Social Bookmarking Console (for lack of a better description) here at Gadgetizer and would like some feedback if you have time.

It’s impossible for me to test it out on all browser/OS combos, so if you’re using a Commodore 64 on an old BW TV, or a quad processor screamer running Linux and a 30″ monitor and find something freaky with that comment form, please let me know using the contact form here.

If you came to this post from a link or search engine, the snazzed up console is below. If you’re reading this on the main page or a category page, just click the “Comments” link on the right of the green bar below to go to the form.

Any bug reports would be hugely appreciated.

Head Geek, Paul Short.

24 Responses to New Ajax Commenting & Bookmarking Console at Gadgetizer.com

Paul

September 25th, 2006 at 2:36 pm

NOTE: This new commenting system sets a new cookie in visitors browsers. Even though people may have commented and been approved earlier, they have to have another comment approved to post freely again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Things to do with this commenting/social bookmarking console:

* Rounded corners on the colored tabs to match the rest of the layout

* Style the tab heading text to make it look better

* Tiny icons next to the bookmarking and submit links

* Test for legacy browser compatibility

* Have others test in different OS/Browser version combos

* Smilies are working too:

** Fix problem with the comment list pushing to the right in older versions of IE

Currently works in IE7, FF, Opera & Flock browsers on Windows XP.

Jason DeVelvis

September 25th, 2006 at 4:10 pm

Works with IE6 SP2 on Win XP, Paul. Great looking plugin, can’t wait ’till you launch it!

Jason

September 25th, 2006 at 4:16 pm

Paul,

Looks great in Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Win XP.

Awesome looking plugin by the way.

Jason

Rob :-)

September 25th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

Thats great Paul.

Really neat.

Hope this tester comment works well.. I am using firfox and it looks just as it should, going by your screenshot.
[;)]

Rob

Michael Tracey

September 25th, 2006 at 4:21 pm

Ummm looks OK FF1.5.07 under XP screen 17″ 1152X864

BTW Paul dude, i think i need social bookmarking thingamagummies on my sites So how do I do the doohickey thingamajig..not the whole bangshoot with comments & such just the bookmarking part of the dohickey

Michael

Jason DeVelvis

September 25th, 2006 at 4:45 pm

Lets try this again, to check out the new formatting for the Submit animation

Anna

September 25th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

Well I left a message with the contact form about what it looks like to me, and now I have to try posting a comment here just to see how it works :O

Anna

Josh

September 25th, 2006 at 5:03 pm

Let’s see the submission process. I just so wanna buy this off you.

Paul

September 25th, 2006 at 5:04 pm

Hi Anna, if your browser accepts cookies, post another quick comment and you’ll see the Ajax part working.

John Rogers

September 25th, 2006 at 5:09 pm

Looks good, Paul. I resized my browser window every which way and it looks fine.

Thom Meyer

September 25th, 2006 at 5:15 pm

Hi Paul,
Sorry about using the contact instead of comments. Eyes aren’t as good as they used to be.
Anyways all looks good in the different browsers I mentioned in the email.

Jeffrey Neil

September 25th, 2006 at 5:17 pm

Paul

Your thingamajig looks fine in firefox 1.5 in xp at 1024×768 on my thingamabob.

Looks nice actually. I am jealous and think that I have doohicky envy.

Roger Davis

September 25th, 2006 at 11:00 pm

Hi Paul,

Hate to be the typo geek but I’m sure you’ll understand -

“Spam, blatent advertising, hateful or otherwise offensive comments will be deleted”

Blatent(no) Blatant(yes)

Lynn Terry

September 26th, 2006 at 7:49 am

I’m using IE6 and it looks great on this end. Super cool! The eye is really drawn to the colored squares at the top right of the comment form – so I can see how this would really encourage visitors to take some sort of action on posts they enjoyed enough to read down that far…

Great job!

I assume you’ll be packaging something like this up as a nifty little plug-in at some point in the future??

Best,
Lynn Terry

Teli - Mild Insanity

September 26th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

Loving the colors. Normally, I don’t go for such bright things, but it suits the site nicely and, as Lynn mentioned, definitely draws the eyes.

Great replacement for those hideous rows of bookmarking icons you find everywhere else!

~ Teli

Rick Wilson

September 26th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

Paul,

Looks pretty slick there, dude. Nice & clean look to it. I’m using Win XP Pro with IE6.0.

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

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