Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Handling Photo Critique (was: More PAW's question re comments asked for.)
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:58:27 +1100
References: <B6949E4E.4BAD%howard.390@osu.edu>

>Alastair Firkin jotted down the following:
>
>>  I agree that this could work, but it will sit in batched e-Mails, and
>>  in digests, and it is difficult to review what others are saying, or
>>  indeed catch up with the debate at a later time. There is no real
>>  record or thread, and you still have to visit multiple sites to
>>  review the latest postings.
>
>OK, maybe someone should look into Phil Greenspun's "Loquatious" that he
>uses for posting comments on the photo.net site.
>
>If you click on the "Photo of the Week" link on the first page of
>http://www.photo.net/ you'll see an example that could work.  The layout is
>*much* better in my opinion: no distracting background, plenty of space
>between components, and the ability to add comments.  Also, I like the idea
>that all comments are on a single page: much better and easier to deal with
>than a threaded presentation.  But I think we could loose the caption,
>statistics, etc., the voting mechanism for aesthetics/originality, and the
>bit about model releases.
>
>From what I've read about Loquatious, it can be used on other sites too.
>Read more at:
>
>     http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/53014.htm
>
>(Scroll down to "But What about Comments?".)
>
>M.
>
>--
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Nice site, but looks more complex to me with all the extranious 
matter. Could you set it up?

Cheers
- -- 
Alastair Firkin

http://www.afirkin.com

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