Action Highlighting, Image Handling, Comment Info
posted by Ben Engebreth on 02.24.2005
Good progress today on feature additions and some back end stuff.
First, I added red list-like bullets to the items on the "function window" -- the little yellow/beige/orange-y window on the right side that specifies the actions available to the user on the current page. The red bullets are supposed to symbolize that something is in a non-final state. Right now that means when you are waiting for a friend approval or a potential friend is waiting for your approval you should see them on your user page. Also, when in one of those states and viewing the other party (the potential friend) you will also see a bullet marking the actions to deal with it ("reject/verify" in the case of someone wanting to be your friend, or "cancel" in the case of you asking someone else to be your friend). I'm going to try to be consistent here when future actions are incorporated into the site -- assuming this is reasonably intuitive and I end up liking it.
The image handling point is probably completely transparent -- just doing a more complete job of checking what kind of files the user is uploading. Should prevent problems in the future I hope.
Comments. This is kinda cool I think. If you are logged in to Pooln and would like to post a comment to this here blog, the name, email, and URL fields will be populated as specified in your profile. Well, that's not entirely correct. The URL field will be the URL for your Pooln profile. I may either change that to be your profile specified URL (the one that shows up under "Elsewhere" on your profile) or give the user the option of which they'd like to use in the future. I didn't think about that option till just now, so...it's not there quite yet.
Obviously, I'm still working on the blog configuration, so there's still some funkiness in it. Previewing your comments for instance isn't very representative of what you see -- meaning it's very ugly. Also, I gotta get some archive links up. Forthcoming!