Looking through this blog stats I realized that I forgot to tell you, visitor, that the search box from Google on the sidebar is a custom search engine. At this time, this custom search engine is digging into 63 blogs which contains Flex related posts, excepting the Adobe Flex documentation pages (which appear anyway in the first position on a Google search).
The main reason for using this Google service is the time spent searching for workarounds, projects and tutorials – or just interesting posts – from the world of Flex developers.
It is named “Adobe Flex Blogs” and anyone can contribute to the list of blogs which are included in searches, so I’m looking for volunteers and contributors.
Today I was surfing on various Romanian blogs, when I suddenly realized that the next big thing that should happen is the improvement of commenting manner on blogs. My vision includes the following functionality : the commenter should be able to select the post’s paragraphs he is referring to. An mouse over functionality on a small portion of the quote should show the entire paragraph from that post, so the reader should not be forced to navigate up and down and in the same time, the comment remains a comment, not an collection of quotes. I guess that a (net) web structure for representing the post and its comments, would be very nice as an alternative to the linear display adopted today.
The second important thing should be the comment’s replies manner, represented in the same web structure – the @ operator (which indicates to whom the comment is addressing) will disappear and the conversation will be easy to follow.
Please feel free to add functionality ideas if you have them, since this “project” will go straight into my long to-do things. Speaking of to-do list : I was thinking about publishing a full list with descriptions of these projects, which for now represents “Dead Projects Society”…
