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#3: "Reply with quote" function
- Contents
Ploneboard would benefit from a simple "reply with quote" function that enables a user to seed their response with text from a previous message.
- Proposed by
- Jon Stahl, ONE/Northwest
- Seconded by
- Marshall Mayer, LiveModern.com
- Proposal type
- User interface
- Assigned to release
- State
- completed
Motivation
Much as in email, forum users often wish to respond to a particular point in another person's post. It enhances readabilty to allow users to easily "quote" other replies in their posts.
Proposal
Add a "reply with quote" button, which initiates a new reply, but pre-populates it with the text of the reply that is being replied to. Quoted text should be automatically formatted as <blockquote>.
Most forum software offers this functionality -- look at any install of phpBB to see how it works.
HTML vs. Plain Text
Posted by
Martin Aspeli
at
June 28, 2006 - 07:53
So we agree on this, but how does it work in reality? There are four combinations:
1. Parent uses HTML/kupu, reply uses HTML/kupu
2. Parent uses HTML/kupu, reply uses plain text (e.g. browser doesn't support kupu)
3. Parent uses plain text, reply uses HTML/kupu
4. Parent uses plain text, reply uses plain text
We need to decide which algorithm to use for quoting in each of those cases: Do we wrap and insert '>' at the beginning of each line? Do we use a <blockquote>? Do we live with a <blockquote> even in plain text (kind of like nabble.com does now, but it's not very friendly)? How well does kupu handle the case when you want to insert some non-quoted reply text in the middle of a <blockquote>, but have the rest of the quote continue?
Once we decide this, the implementation is trivial.
1. Parent uses HTML/kupu, reply uses HTML/kupu
2. Parent uses HTML/kupu, reply uses plain text (e.g. browser doesn't support kupu)
3. Parent uses plain text, reply uses HTML/kupu
4. Parent uses plain text, reply uses plain text
We need to decide which algorithm to use for quoting in each of those cases: Do we wrap and insert '>' at the beginning of each line? Do we use a <blockquote>? Do we live with a <blockquote> even in plain text (kind of like nabble.com does now, but it's not very friendly)? How well does kupu handle the case when you want to insert some non-quoted reply text in the middle of a <blockquote>, but have the rest of the quote continue?
Once we decide this, the implementation is trivial.
Decision
Posted by
Martin Aspeli
at
June 28, 2006 - 20:25
Seems we settled on <blockquote> being used, even in plain-text. Implementing now.
+1
I agree that this should be available. The only HTML tag that would be let through would be the blockquote one - both because it makes sense to do selective quoting of longer posts, and because it introduces no complexity for the user as such.
I originally planned to have this in Ploneboard by default, that's why there is a Reply button on every post.