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Add a way to preview a comment before posting #1270

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cellio opened this issue Dec 8, 2023 · 0 comments
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Add a way to preview a comment before posting #1270

cellio opened this issue Dec 8, 2023 · 0 comments
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area: html/css/js Changes to front-end code complexity: unassessed Needs further developer investigation before complexity/feasibility can be determined. priority: medium type: change request New feature or request

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cellio commented Dec 8, 2023

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We support quite a bit of formatting in comments, even MathJax and code. Can we add a way to preview comments to avoid having to make repeated "blind" edits to fix errors?

Posts always show a preview, but comments are lighter-weight and often don't include anything fancy. I think for comments it would be fine to have to click something to see a preview, whether that's a button that produces a modal, or GitHub-style "Write" and "Preview" tabs, or something else lightweight. I think it would probably be overkill, and maybe distracting, to have the formatted version of a comment always show up below the textbox like for posts. Also, for initial comments, it would make the field for the thread title less obvious. But can we give users the option to see a rendered comment before posting, for those cases where it would help?

@cellio cellio added area: html/css/js Changes to front-end code type: change request New feature or request priority: medium complexity: unassessed Needs further developer investigation before complexity/feasibility can be determined. labels Dec 8, 2023
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