Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Comment View

[Daniel H. <da...@he...>]

On May 3, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Mike Noyes wrote:
> The problem is HTML doesn't provide a good way to represent threaded
> discussions.

I'm just a lurker, but I'm not sure I'm following the discussion (oh, 
the irony).

Is the issue that the data is difficult to store and query in a nested 
view or that presenting the nested data via HTML a problem?

Seems to me that if the data is stored with a key structure that allows 
the generation of a tree map, that just walking the map node-by-node 
and generating a flat list of <div/> tags is sufficient structural 
markup.

Presentation-ally, classing each div with its nested-ness should make 
styling a cinch.

And if you wanted to get freaky-creative, you could give each div an id 
attribute that represents its node and its parent (eg <div id="6_3"> 
represents the 6th entry whose parent is the 3rd), and then use DOM 
scripting to construct the view/presentation this way.

-daniel