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> You could recreate the open-the-reply-page-in-a-new-tab behaviour of HN That is the crux of the problem. Why is there this obsessive need to recreate what is
by quantummkv 6y ago
> You could recreate the open-the-reply-page-in-a-new-tab behaviour of HN
That is the crux of the problem. Why is there this obsessive need to recreate what is already available?
> with a few kilobytes of JS if you're doing it right.
As experienced with PHP developers in the dark ages, that never works. It will be a choice between easy and incorrect or difficult and right. The majority will never do it right for various reasons. And the web will loose in the eyes of the users.
- Vinnl 6y ago> That is the crux of the problem. Why is there this obsessive need to recreate what is already available? For exactly the reasons stated: to both support in-line reply without the jarring page refresh, and to be able to open the reply form in a background tab. And I think what Rich wants/is working on is making it both easy and right, because indeed, otherwise it will never happen.