New Dynamic Updating Discussions

Slashdot users of the Discussion2 system now have a new 'Update' button visible on their floating control slider, as well at the end of the discussion. This button will update your page to include comments posted since the page was loaded, so now you can keep discussion pages up to date without doing a full reload. It's nowhere near complete yet, but it's a nice step that goes a long ways towards making it easier to use larger discussions while they are actively updating. If you aren't using Discussion2, you need to log in, and toggle the checkbox visible on every page. You probably need bother only if you are using Firefox 1.5 or 2.x or Safari. You can send bug reports to me if you want.

Comments

Re:Error 500

[utopianfiat]

in before vista.

Re:Error 500

[normuser]

It works in IE. Maybe you should try it?

Thats strange. I have never been able to get the new discussion system to work on ie. its great in firefox, but if I enable it home and then come to work where there is only winxp/ie it will be enabled here to and you cant disable it from ie, so I just stick with the normal system.