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Easy comment rating with JavaScript
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By tekue , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Wed May 29, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I think there's a reasonable number of people not rating comments because of the disadvantages it brings. I for one can't vote if I wanted to, because 50+ form inputs send my system swirling into a crash. I think this can be helped.
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A solution I would suggest to implement is to allow rating comments without needing to submit a form. This should of course be seen only as an alternative, as it requires JavaScript.
It could work like this: a number of images — one for every possible rating option — or a single image with all voting options would be placed under every comment. When you want to rate the comment, you simply click the rate you'd like to give to this comment. The Javascript onclick event of that image would change the image's source to a script, which would save the rate and return a different, "selected" image.
I think that a single image should be used, as it helps to keep the voting interface consistent with your last vote. I don't know however if it's possible in JavaScript to tell what were the coordinates of the mouse click.
I think that this could help some people to rate comments more easily, and by extention improve the democratic process. |
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