Re:

[pne]

So, some of you may have noticed that if you reply to a comment that has no subject, the subject box of your comment is pre-filled with "Re: " (including the space).

What do you think about it? (Personally, I think it's slightly annoying and that it looks ugly to see comment pages with lots of "Re:" subjects when people don't delete or replace that text.)

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Comments

[asciident]

You know it's a bug in Zilla, right?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes.

But historically, bugs take a variable length of time to get fixed and the fix applied to the live site; until then, we're stuck with the status quo.

Re:

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I thought it already had a patch into CVS?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, I don't know; I hadn't been paying sufficiently close attention to Zilla lately.

Has there been a patch committed for this?

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

http://zilla.livejournal.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678#c10

Yep.

Already fixed in CVS.

I hate it, because then all comment notifications get stuck in one thread, even though they're to totally different entries. As a result, I just make sure to move comments with that subject out of my inbox quicker, so they don't pile up, but it's still a PITA.

[pne.livejournal.com]

What's the alternative?

All subject-less comments are the same, after all.

Unless you propose to give them an email subject of, say, the subject of the entry they're a comment on or something?

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

It's not the fact that they have the same subject - it's the fact that they have "Re:". Because LiveJournal doesn't implement any kind of comment threading information in emails (which is another bug in Zilla) my client assumes "Re:" means it is a response to something. All comments with "Re:" will thread in one thread. "Reply to your comment..." is not a reply to something, so those don't thread in a big pile.

Of course, the proper answer is to include correct threading information in email headers, but I don't know enough about how email headers work to figure out how to do that.

In the meantime, just reverting to the old behavior worked fine for me.

subbes

[subbes]

Considering Firefox fills in the subject line of every comment box with "subbes," and I rarely remember to edit it out, this point is rather moot as far as I'm concerned.


Raises some eyebrows, though, when I seem to be indicating that subbes is a raving loony, or a piece of work, or something.

Re: subbes

[pne.livejournal.com]

Eh? Is that because you used it once and form autocomplete remembers it? Or does it think it's a login form and want's to enter your username because of that?

Interesting.

What do you think of Firefox so far, though?

subbes

[subbes]

It seems to think it's a login, perhaps? i'm not sure.

I'm enjoying it, but that's partially because I just upgraded from Phoenix 0.5 and therefore had a pretty big increase in, well, stuff. I'm not overjoyed with the way that it KEEPS CHANGING THE ICONS I USE FOR JPGS AND PNGS AND HTML AND GIFS GODDAMIT! I chose those icons myself, customised and everything, so firefox needs to stop changing them back. I'm close to submitting a bug report for it, but worry that, as they did when I complained that "broken" images weren't even being shown as a placeholder but merely disappearing, they'll claim it's a "feature" and I'll have to kill them.

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

I don't even notice the subjects on comments or replies to comments, most of the time... I hope I don't irritate you if there are a lot of "Re:"s in my subjects. =)