* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
should probably be shared
+
+ > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
+ > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
+ > complex. --[[smcv]]
+
* Previews always say "unknown IP address"
+
* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID
+
+ > Done in my comments git branch --[[smcv]]
+
+ > Not seeing it there, which branch? --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Bah, git push --all is not the default... 'comments' branch now (I've also rebased it).
+ >> Sorry, I'm on mobile Internet at the moment... --[[smcv]]
+
* The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address
as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs
+
+ > Done in my comments git branch, at least as a mockup (using the (?),
+ > {x} and {*} smileys for anonymous, OpenID and login respectively).
+ > --[[smcv]]
+
+ >> I've improved this to use independent icons from the wikiicons
+ >> directory (untested!) --[[smcv]]
+
+ >>> The new code produces links like /wikiisons/openid.png, which
+ >>> fail if ikiwiki is not at the root of the web server. --[[Joey]]
+
+* Should the comments be visually set off more from the page above?
+ Rather than just a horizontal rule, I'm thinking put the comments
+ in a box like is used for inlined pages.
+
+ > I did put them in a box in the CSS... I agree the default template
+ > could do with visual improvement though. --[[smcv]]
+
+* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter
+ the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post.
+
+ > I'm not sure this is so useful? On Livejournal titles are allowed on
+ > comments, but very rarely used (and indeed usually not very useful);
+ > it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-)
+ > --[[smcv]]
+
+* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean
+ up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment
+ that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of
+ course).
+
+ > Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be
+ > a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]]
+
+* One can use inline to set up a feed of all comments posted to any page.
+ Using template=comment they are displayed right. Only problem
+ is there is no indication in that template of what page each comment in the
+ feed is a comment on. So, if a comment is inlined into a different page,
+ I think it should show a link back to the page commented on.
+ (BTW, the rss feed in this situation seems ok; there the link element
+ points back to the parent page.
+
+ > done --[[Joey]]
+
+* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
+ pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
+ Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
+ would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
+ being posted.
+
+ > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
+ > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
+ > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
+ > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
+ > mouths :-) )
+ >
+ > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
+ > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
+ > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
+ > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
+ > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
+ > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
+ > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
+
+* One of Joey's commit messages says "Not ideal, it would be nicer to jump to
+ the actual comment posted, but no anchor is available". In fact there is
+ an anchor - the `\[[_comment]]` preprocessing wraps the comment in a <div>
+ with id="comment_123" or something. I'll fix this, unless Joey gets there
+ first. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > done --[[Joey]]
+
+* Now that inline has some comments-specific functionality anyway, it would
+ be good to output '<link rel="comments">' in Atom and the equivalent in RSS.