Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Comment View

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 3 May 2005, at 16:39, Mike Noyes wrote:

>
> Personally, I prefer an NNTP client. HTML isn't designed for  
> discussion.
>

That's mixing how discussions are stored with how they are displayed  
really. I've no objections to storing comments in an NNTP store but  
ultimately you still have to display them in HTML and allow people to  
discuss using a web browser interface. Allowing access via an NNTP  
client directly is nice too although commercially it would be a  
disaster for some sites allowing users to bypass any revenue  
generating adverts or content.

NNTP clients make threaded discussion viable because they run fast  
and native on the client OS. That's tricky to do in a web browser  
unless you implement it with XMLHttpRequest and Javascript aka AJAX  
otherwise you've got multiple page reloads when navigating threads.

There's certainly more we could do to open up the interfaces in  
phpWebSite to other protocols other than HTTP, such as Atom, XML-RPC  
or NNTP but at the heart of it you've got to have a good browser side  
experience.


Shaun
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk