Discussion Updates
If you have the "I am willing to help test Slashdot's New Discussion System" checked, you get two cool new features today.
First is that you get a pair of neat CSS/JS sliders in place of the old box with arrows on it. Drag them up and down and you see how many comments are available at each "threshold." Let go and the page updates to match your selection.
The other is that if a comment is hidden, it is not put into the page, to save on initial page load. The comment is then loaded on demand via Ajax. If you started with 0 hidden comments, slide the sliders to show greater-than-zero hidden comments, then reload to get a new version of the page. Then drag the slider back down to reveal the hidden coments. You'll see a "Loading ... Please wait" text pop up under the slider box as the comments load in. Same thing if you click "$n hidden comments" text to reveal the hidden comments: if they are not already loaded in, they are fetched, on demand.
First is that you get a pair of neat CSS/JS sliders in place of the old box with arrows on it. Drag them up and down and you see how many comments are available at each "threshold." Let go and the page updates to match your selection.
The other is that if a comment is hidden, it is not put into the page, to save on initial page load. The comment is then loaded on demand via Ajax. If you started with 0 hidden comments, slide the sliders to show greater-than-zero hidden comments, then reload to get a new version of the page. Then drag the slider back down to reveal the hidden coments. You'll see a "Loading ... Please wait" text pop up under the slider box as the comments load in. Same thing if you click "$n hidden comments" text to reveal the hidden comments: if they are not already loaded in, they are fetched, on demand.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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