RE: [Slashcode-development] change the look of threads forcomments

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 21:29 -0500 2001.03.26, Blake Day wrote:
>Cliff, I needed to do something liek the following:
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>Comment 1                    username1       March 25, 2001
>  Re: Comment 1              username2       March 26, 2001
>Comment 2                    username3       March 25, 2001
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>I could not do that with the simple indent variable.  I needed them in table
>rows.
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>I personally think the display would be more extensible that way.  Am I
>missing something?

Yes.  :)  As already noted:

1.  It is not easy to separate this logic from the display; it's easy to
say "let us customize it however we want," but it is harder to actually do
that, when these things are tied this closely together.

2.  What you want to do is change the behavior of these things.  The
templates are note for changing behavior, but display.  You can always
change the code, or add new code (via a plugin, etc.).  Even if we could
allow what you want simply by changing templates, someone else would come
along and want something we couldn't provide in the templates.

3.  We are rewriting comments anyway; there was little point in putting a
lot of work into code that was going to be replaced in 2.2.

Yes, it would be nice to be able to easily customize it in any way you want
to.  But this is just a low priority, so we did what we could for the time
being.  Hopefully, it will be more easily customizable in 2.2.


>Btw, I have already gotten it tow ork by modifying code.

That's great.

Thanks,

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