Textarea snooping
Shannon Campbell : “Someone needs to write a Movable Type Plug-in that will echo all the keystrokes anyone enters in a comment box.”
Ulp. I’m not going to do it, but I do know how it can be done.
Shannon Campbell : “Someone needs to write a Movable Type Plug-in that will echo all the keystrokes anyone enters in a comment box.”
Ulp. I’m not going to do it, but I do know how it can be done.
Dammit! You know Shannon is going to shank it out of you Phil, one way or another.
Welp, there goes those fun almost posts on Pet Rock Star… <sigh>
Phil has done so much for me already, I doubt I could ever ask him to do anything he so forcibly says he’s not going to do.
Besides, if he did it, I’d have to start editing all of my comments in Notepad first. Sheesh.
I’m tempted to view source on every comment textarea before I start typing ill-formed thoughts, just in case.
Unless you hate JavaScript, there’s already a hack for this at Scriptygoddess; not as cool as a plugin, but it works really well! Okay, I’ll be honest, other than the preview text not showing up, I wouldn’t really know if it was breaking anything or not working…
That’s a very cool script that does something entirely different: that just shows you (the comment author) what your comment will look like, keystroke by keystroke, entirely on your computer. What we are *theoretically* discussing is telling the site owner everything that’s typed in the comment textarea, not just what’s there when (or if) the comment author hits submit, so instead of just seeing ”Phil, did you happen to look at x?” I see ”Phil, you moron, can’t you even search Google before you start ranting? If you can still remember how to click a link, x has your answer in words even you can understand” followed by much backspacing, selecting, and deleting.
Ah, like comment snooping – very sneaky. I don’t know if I’d use it, but I’m theoretically interested.