Re: Two suggestions on comments

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:38, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> 1. It'd be nice if comments had IDs (instead of names, which are being 
> deprecated in XHTML), but unfortunately IDs can't begin with numbers, I 
> suggest starting it with a underscore "_" or "c" (for comment).

This is a flavour thing, there's no reason you can't do:

<div class="comments" id="comment_$tb_id$cmt_time">

for XHTML compliant links (does browsers support that?)

> 2. Normalize their URL if they don't provide "http://" . Something like:
>         # Check if the form has a URL
>         url = (form.has_key('url') and [form['url'].value] or [''])[0]
>         if url[:7] != 'http://': url = 'http://' + url

I'll get Ted to deal with this. What if a fella has ftp:// or gopher://
as his url (though unlikely).




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