Comments on: Still working on that comments preview function

By: Gray

Gray — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:54:22 +0000

But I always like the surprise when one of my pithy, well reasoned comments goes up with misspellings and bonehead punctuation errors.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:10:57 +0000

How about a “Are you really really sure you want to present those choice words to the world?” button.

By: Hector Owen

Hector Owen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:45:09 +0000

S. Weasel has a nice preview plus edit. I think it's AjaxEditComments. Free, or cheap.

By: turfmann

turfmann — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:37:05 +0000

I really don’t see the for a preview function, nor do I reely think thier neads to be a speling funchsion either.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:45:51 +0000

I agree with Mike. I love the edit function. For some reason having to do with personal limitations, I seldom spot my errors before I hit the enter button. Moments later they leap out and grab me by the throat.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:45:06 +0000

Wow. Weird. Works fine for me. Could be the rev. level of WP you’re on.

I just updated to a newer revision level and the strikeout feature suddenly stopped working.

It was pretty humorous because I had posted something after a celebration and the post showed it. Rather than just fix it I thought it would be funny to do strikeouts followed by the corrections. It looked fine on the screen but luckily I looked at it after updating and all the words were there ~~but the strikeout lines were gone~~ and then it looked REALLY deranged.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:26:41 +0000

IMHO, fewer and fewer blogs have the preview capability than before, which is a regression rather than a progression.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:25:13 +0000

Thanks, Neo. The issue for me is not so much spelling but making sure that my HTML tags are OK. Example: insure that only the parts I want in boldface are are actually in boldface. Links, also.

Which reminds me of what a family friend, then in her sixties, said about the computer over a quarter century ago. ” The computer doesn’t do what I want it to do. It does what I tell it do do.”

By: LAG

LAG — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:42:43 +0000

Neo, I agree with Paul_In_Houseton. Those of us who alwyas get our grammer and speling right the furst time don’t need a prevue pain. But thanks for the effort.

By: Paul_In_Houston

Paul_In_Houston — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:44:00 +0000

If you are unable to work in a preview option, then just declare: Actually, I'm encouraging you to try to Get It Right The First Time!. Consider it as "Evolution in action". (~Niven & Pournelle) :-)