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  • (Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 28 2014, @04:40AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Friday February 28 2014, @04:40AM (#8376)

    Yeah, and I have thought of doing that (not just for the watch, also for its general utility), but:

    1. I didn't write the script, just tweaked a couple lines to get rid of errors and make it work on SN -- easy enough, but substantial investment of effort is involved to go any further, as then I have to actually read/understand the whole code.
    2. I haven't yet figured a way to run it on my watch (MOTOACTV, runs Android) -- Opera is the only browser I know works well on the tiny screen, and the android version doesn't do userscripts. I know there's an android browser (Oilcan or something) that's got a userscript engine built-in, but I haven't gotten around to trying that yet.

    In fact, my vision for the userscript, if I do get around to understanding and tinkering, is for it to at least support showing/hiding based on score (so you set your slashcode threshold to -1 so everything loads, then let the script auto-collapse everything below your actual threshold, which only the script knows about). Possibly also implement an "abbreviated" state (more-or-less like D2), and in that case, paying attention to comment lengths is essential -- it's stupid to show a 3-line comment abbreviated to 2 lines, and it may be desirable to abbreviate wall-o-text posts, even if they're above the threshold, to 10 lines or so. I'm also thinking about text size/color/etc. to deemphasize low-score comments without collapsing them completely.

    It's so much easier to fantasize about UI tweaks than work on them...

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  • (Score: 2) by mrbluze on Friday February 28 2014, @07:36AM

    by mrbluze (49) on Friday February 28 2014, @07:36AM (#8424)

    Good suggestions. As per IRC discussions I'm hoping we can do this with a minimal of JS and as much with CSS as possible, so that a JS-free browser will be quite usable, but for bells and whistles JS appears necessary.

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