19 posts tagged “notcomet”
How about allowing the rich text post editor to serve as the comment editor too? perhaps with some of the feautres turned off, but at least with the bold/italics/link buttons.
also, spell checking would be nice.
I've seen this requested before, but I just want to also vote on providing some sort of link under the Connections sidebar section that displays the recent posts of people you are connected to but are not marked as friends or family.
I tend to have strict criteria for the 'friend' category (somewhere between "it wouldn't seem strange if I invited them over to my house for dinner" and "i'd let them see the photo of me passed out wearing nothing but a safeway paper bag and oven mitts" (no such photo exists, that is a contrived example! (the real photos are worse))).
However, I'm still interested in what my less familiar acquaintances are up to.
I like the simplicity of draft being just a normal post that is visible only to you, but it would be nicer if there was some indication when looking at your blog that was more noticable than the "Visible only by you" thing at the top of the post. Like perhaps making the background light yellow instead of white. Or use a faint 'DRAFT' tiling in the background like MoinMoin wiki does when you're previewing your changes (see attached screen grab).
Surely the fact that this moblogged photo wasn't auto-thumbnailed is a bug?
When is Comet going to offer a pink tv right out of the box? ;)
The default Mac OS X screenshot utility saves as TIFF. Frankly that sucks, but still, it would be nice if you guys supported the TIFF format for 'photos'
FireBug is a wonderful tool for web development. You guys probably already know about it, but perhaps not. It is a FireFox extension that gives you a lot of details on CSS and Ajaxy errors. For instance, just loading http://www.notcomet.com/compose shows 49 errors in FireBug. Most of them appear to be CSS:
If I click on one of the css file names in the right column there, it even pops up the relevant CSS file with the line highlighted. It's heaven. FireBug has lots of tools to help you drill down on CSS issues, like Inspect Element which lets you pick an element on the webpage and it displays the corresponding CSS and DOM underpinnings.
Btw, don't feel bad about 49, Check out what gmail does:
I just realized Comet is sort of like vi. It's got command mode when you get the [Comet, Compose, Organize, Design, Connect] menu, and visual mode when you're basically blog surfing. That's awesome. I love vi.
Again, related to the Inbox thing.
It sure would be nice if all of the emails I get saying 'so and so has connected to you' were also being stored somewhere on the comet site. On Flickr you get an Inbox, but I'd actually like to see something a step better. Like when I log in, some sort of summary like this:
Since your last login
- 3 people have connected to you.
- There is 1 new comment on your items.
- Your family members have created 6 new blog posts.
- Your friends have created 12 new blog posts.
Each of these lines would be a link. If you click on it, you get some dhtml action that inserts a sublist under the item you selected. So if I clicked on the first line, this would appear:
- (icon) Condaleeza [checkbox] connect as [checkbox] friend [checkbox] family
- (icon) Dubya [checkbox] connect as [checkbox] friend [checkbox] family
- (icon) ThePenguin [checkbox] connect as [checkbox] friend [checkbox] family
This way I could quickly reciprocate links.
The other links in the original list would lead to other context specific actions. In the other three cases I guess these would all be just direct links to the comments/posts in question. One piece of meta information I'd like to see is some indication on whether or not a specific blog post is non-public. I would be much more likely to click on a link to a post I knew I could only see because I was marked friend or family in someones connections.
Is there no way to send a private message to someone in the system other than leaving a comment on one of there library items (posts/media/etc)?
In relation to my previous "cc" post, I guess the user needs an inbox to receive the cc'd comment.
