Question thread #26

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[marahmarie]

I'd like to understand the logic behind automatic comment count refresh not working from a starting number of "0" as described here in the changelog for inline Reading Page commenting that I am hoping will go live soon. (I think that's inline Reading Page commenting. If it's not inline Reading page commenting, I have a spoilers post to correct as needed on my journal).

I'm also curious to know if the new inline commenting will work on my Reading Page with a custom style like my own that has the checkbox for Base CSS unchecked (since I'm kind of confused based on what I'm seeing in that changelog - it seems it might work, but only on some custom layouts and/or might work on all custom layouts but automatic comment count refreshing won't work on any custom layouts - if anyone could please untangle that confusion for me I would be grateful).

[pauamma]

I'm sorry you didn't get an answer to your questions. Were you able to figure it out on your own?

[marahmarie]

No, I wasn't able to. I also asked everyone who reads my DW (a few are programmers and devs so I thought certainly I'd have some luck asking among them) but so far there's been no takers - although andrewducker is possibly going to look into it himself - if he didn't forget about it by now - maybe after the New Year. But if anyone could help push the answer along from here before then I would surely appreciate it (and pass on to my Circle whatever it is you folks tell me)...

[afuna]

It is inline reading page commenting -- reason for the limitation is that we update the existing link after you've posted your comment. When we start with 0 comments, there's no link yet so nothing to update. (Have filed a bug but it's not in this first pass as of yet!)

Inline commenting should work with the case you describe. If you have a custom S2 layout (for example something imported from LJ -> compiled under the advanced section of /customize/) then that will probably not work.

[marahmarie]

Ah, I see (and thanks for answering!). I don't use an LJ import right now but I do use custom s2 (the CSS goes in the custom CSS box on the wizard page, though, not with the s2 the way I have it set up - not that it would make a difference to how anything displays or to this discussion - oh, OK, I forgot LJ s2 gets set up differently, and under the old core, so I guess my layout is at least theoretically going to work with this).

And that makes sense (and in some sort of fuzzy and undefined way is sort of what I had expected); if there is no comment link printed to start the refresh count, then there's nothing to count up from 0 (but I can see why you'd file a bug on it, as there ought to be something to start the refresh from 0, even without the link)...