[uf-new] Re: Comment Questions

[Toby A Inkster]

David Janes wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Toby A Inkster <mail at  
> tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> > David Janes wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not sure why you think #3 forces a particular layout.
> >
> > Imagine the following comments:
> >
> > - Comment A to the main article at 1:00 pm.
> > - Comment B to the main article at 2:00 pm.
> > - Comment C in reply to comment A at 3:00 pm.
> > - Comment D in reply to comment B at 4:00 pm.
> >
> > Use of class="hfeed replies" forces the comments to be placed in  
> ACBD order:
> > C is a reply to A so it needs to be nested within a feed nested  
> within A; B
> > cannot come between them. This means that the comments cannot be  
> layed out
> > chronologically.
>
> Sorry, I don't see this ....  You can put
> <EntryComments>...<EntryComments> around comments, independent of
> ordering or nesting. To spell it out explicitly, e.g. and assuming
> EntryComments is physicalized using "hfeed comments"

<div class="hentry">
    ... this is the blog post ...
    <div class="hfeed comments">
      <div class="hentry">
        <p class="entry-content">A</p>
        <abbr title="..." class="updated">1:00 pm</abbr>
      </div>
      <div class="hentry">
        <p class="entry-content">B</p>
        <abbr title="..." class="updated">2:00 pm</abbr>
      </div>
      <div class="hentry">
        <p class="entry-content">C</p>
        <abbr title="..." class="updated">3:00 pm</abbr>
      </div>
      <div class="hentry">
        <p class="entry-content">D</p>
        <abbr title="..." class="updated">4:00 pm</abbr>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>

Now the problem is: how do we explicitly markup that C is a reply to  
A, and D is a reply to B? Without taking them out of chronological  
order! That is the use case for rel="in-reply-to".

That's why I suggest allowing both class="hfeed replies" and rel="in- 
reply-to". The former takes care of the most simple case, but the  
latter is required for more complex threading.

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Toby A Inkster
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