Is it possible to have comment style quotes like on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Youtube?

TownFish

Is it possible to have comment style quotes like on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yahoo Answers, and Youtube, where a comment box appears below the quote button underneath each comment rather than directing you all the way down to the main comments box at the bottom or top of the screen?

Here's a screenshot example:

hgtonight

Create a plugin that:

1. Spits out a reply link
2. Clicking on it pastes the authors name into the comment box
3. And brings a copy/clone of the form into right below it.

This seems like a pretty trivial JS plugin. Are you familiar with jQuery?

hgtonight

@TownFish said:
Ok so this should be a simple thing to achieve in your opinion?

All the tools are there to make this a relatively simple plugin. I don't mean to trivialize the development and looking at edge cases.

if we were to create a reply feature to replace the quote feature, would this mean we can eliminate the little piece of code that appears when you Quote normally?

I would just disable the quote plugin since you are looking to supplant that plugin.

hgtonight

So, rather than have a quote functionality, you want a reply functionality with the form inserted right at the button and fill the box out with a @mention directed at the user?

TownFish

Yes that's the absolute ideal of what I'd like to have

hgtonight

Create a plugin that:

1. Spits out a reply link
2. Clicking on it pastes the authors name into the comment box
3. And brings a copy/clone of the form into right below it.

This seems like a pretty trivial JS plugin. Are you familiar with jQuery?

TownFish

Ok so this should be a simple thing to achieve in your opinion? Something else - if we were to create a reply feature to replace the quote feature, would this mean we can eliminate the little piece of code that appears when you Quote normally?

TownFish

@hgtonight said:
Create a plugin that:

1. Spits out a reply link
2. Clicking on it pastes the authors name into the comment box
3. And brings a copy/clone of the form into right below it.

This seems like a pretty trivial JS plugin. Are you familiar with jQuery?

Ok so this should be a simple thing to achieve in your opinion? Something else - if we were to create a reply feature to replace the quote feature, would this mean we can eliminate the little piece of code that appears when you Quote normally?

hgtonight

@TownFish said:
Ok so this should be a simple thing to achieve in your opinion?

All the tools are there to make this a relatively simple plugin. I don't mean to trivialize the development and looking at edge cases.

if we were to create a reply feature to replace the quote feature, would this mean we can eliminate the little piece of code that appears when you Quote normally?

I would just disable the quote plugin since you are looking to supplant that plugin.