Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Comment View

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:52, Shaun Murray wrote:
> 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.

Shaun,
I indicated a preference for NNTP client over an HTML browser. Both are
clients for display/interaction.


> 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.

I submitted this SF RFE a while ago to address that very issue.

        NNTP PHP Web Interface
        https://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1072029


> 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.

Correct. It's a big waste of bandwidth, and a kludge. Unfortunately,
NNTP got a bad reputation from USENET. :-(


> 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.

Agreed.

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Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
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