TOPIC: version status

Hi Daniel,

I just want to ask if there are any imminent plans to release a new version of CompojoomComment.
Just to clarify, I'm not asking this because I think there necessarily should be (actually it would make things simpler for me if there wouldn't be), but I'm asking simply for information since I'm about to make a new installation and I would like to know if there happen to be a new version that might come out a day or two after I finish installing... so I'll know if I should wait or carry on with it now.

Thanks!

Hey Owen,
I'm behind schedule. The new version should appear in the next weeks and I think that it will be a serious change.

Here are the most important things planned:
CompojoomComment will be distributed with just the com_content plugin. You will be able to install new plugins trough the compojoomComment backend.
Also the user will be able to install new templates, emoticons and languages trough the compojoomComment backend.
This is important because right now when there is a new version of a language file or template we have to update the whole package instead of this template or language file.

This means that in the future one will update compojoomComment only if there are changes to the core of the component.

Next important thing is the frontend. I've decided to rewrite the way comments are loaded. Right now comments are loaded together with the component in place. In the future after the page is loaded we will start a query to the database and get the appropriate comments. This will allow us to point to a specific comment that is on 2nd, 10th or 20th page.
All fixations to anchors will be changed with nice js scroll to anchor effects.

And another important change are going to be the links to comments. Right now we create SEF urls for every component everywhere in the frontend, backend and notifications emails. I'm planning to change those links to more generic one like:
yoursite.com/component/com_comment/comment/20
once clicked this will redirect to a proper SEF link as we know it yoursite.com/myblog/mycategory/myitem#josc20

Why am I doing this? Joomla doesn't support sef urls in the backend and in notification mails - we are making a lot of tricks to achieve this right now. By moving to this pattern: yoursite.com/component/com_comment/comment/20 we will create the sef link only when the comment link is clicked on. This will save several db queries and only clicked links will cause sql queries.

Not so important features - full frontend edit and cookies are already implemented.

Cheers,
Daniel