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When I first saw it(can’t remember on some forums or wordpress), the threaded comment idea got stuck to me.

When I wanted to install that for my blog, it seems that I couldnt even decide which webpage to visit and even more complex for to to decide what to install.

Anyway at least I knew later 3 important names were involved.

Dodo.
Mark.
Brian.

It was difficult for me to know whats going on, because the installation instructions does not seem to be easy and for no reason I still cannot visit Brain’s blog (I managed to get the code looking at the source, and from wiki/). So as far as I could make out the history, the story goes something like this.

Dodo, running her on blog using the b2 engine,  created the earilest threaded comments hacks or plugin I could find.

Mark,  came to "translate or port" the script for wordpress 1.2. Although it supports non-javascript browsers, everytime you click on a comment  to reply it, it redirects you to another page to post your comment.

Dodo have since moved over to wordpress. She finds that  its troublesome to open another page just to submit a comment. She add javascript and a hidden field to mark’s script  so a visitor can post a thread reply in the same page.

Dodo then switch to 1.5, and has upgraded her scripts. She also has plugins for notifying visitors who made comments through email called Threaded Comments Notification.

The latest advancements for the plugin was made by Brian. More javascript and DOM was involved, css, and option page was also there. Brian’s threads could be expanded and hidden, giving the wandering effect. Clicking the reply to comment would move the commentbox into the thread, compared to previous version where the page just scrolled to the bottom to make a comment.

Then came along I, who wanted to make things even similar. I didnt want to modify the database or edit the comment.php file. So I used javascript, "injecting" fields into the comment page, using DOM to do the reordering of comment boxes. Much work was based from Brain’s version. If someone do no have javascript enabled, he would see the normal layout.

Of course its far from perfect, and it has alot of issues. Anyone who can help is great. Esp. it does not work with IE.

Goto the plugin page.