I would like to be able to have a link on my page which would open comments in a popup modal ajax window. I read with interest this post: https://compojoom.com/forum/ccomment-core/18877-loading-comments-in-raw-html-view#25552
which I think has some of the same requirements.

My goal is to have a table with a list of topics. When the user clicks on the topic link the modal popup will display showing the comments for this topic. A user could add a new comment if they wanted. Standard moderation configuration should apply. Closing the popup returns them to the list. I can pass a reference ID in the link which would link to the ID in the comments DB.

I had considered making an article for each item in my list and then causing the article to display in the popup window, but this seems a little overkill and I don't really want to create hundreds of dummy articles simply to display the comments.

Any thoughts or suggestions on how I would be best to create this functionality? I am not afraid of writing code to do it.

Thanks in advance.