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Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by greengreens »

prophetjohn wrote: post #9
greengreens wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK when I hit 'back' from this page then go 'more' it works.

It's currently working for me. Maybe you were just too fast and hit it before domready had fired? Let me know if you have any more issues with it.

Seems to be working now thanks. Not sure how domready works, how do you tell?

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by prophetjohn »

tnorthcutt wrote: post #11

I get an error message when trying to install: "Manifest file is invalid." Chrome stable, Mac Mountain Lion.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times on Mac and a Windows VM without getting that message. I know Google checks the manifest file on upload for validity, but I've seen reports[1] of seemingly random installation failures. Have it happened more than once?

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=103281

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by carbocation »

prophetjohn wrote: post #13
carbocation wrote: post #10

The unread counts don't work for me on OS X Chrome 23.0.1271.101 .

I've got the same setup as you. Are they wrong or just not showing? Console errors?

No console errors, just not showing. Let me know if there is anything I can send to help debug.

Also, not sure if this is by design, but after I post an in-place reply, I have to reload the page to see my post. However, upon editing a post, the page reloads immediately. I didn't see any error in the console.

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by prophetjohn »

carbocation wrote: post #17
prophetjohn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got the same setup as you. Are they wrong or just not showing? Console errors?

No console errors, just not showing. Let me know if there is anything I can send to help debug. Also, not sure if this is by design, but after I post an in-place reply, I have to reload the page to see my post. However, upon editing a post, the page reloads immediately. I didn't see any error in the console.

I was conflicted about whether or not to update new comments inline or force a page refresh. So the behavior with the comments is intentional. I may end up changing it if it's confusing.

As for the other problem, I'm confused about why that's the only thing not working. Are you running any other extensions that could be conflicting?

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by etcet »

I like the way that comments become "read" as you move through them with the shortcut keys.

But I prefer the simple orange line highlight that the hckrnews.com extension and (shameless plug) the Hacker News Enhancement Suite [0] use. Your variable width grey highlight becomes looks very chaotic.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by tomkinstinch »

I like this a lot. Just one small issue:

The default background color for new comments seems too dark for me--the contrast is low enough that new comments are more difficult to read than previously read ones. What about making the background for new comments lighter than the HN default?

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