Comments on: The Polls Are In

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll go ahead and be an ass. :) You should try considering other methods for polling on the mobile version, instead of AJAX ;)

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tom: Definitely. The poll should work with or without Javascript. The only thing javascript should do is intercept the form event if it’s possible to (viz. *not* on mobile devices).

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyway, I love it. Never liked any “poll” links where little pop-ups showed up. I love the idea of inside-of-blog-entry poll system. Very neat.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There you go again with the “New Company” thing…

WHAT IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

* nice poll BTW *

By: miko

miko — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike, I can vote twice: One in Safari, and another in Firefox.

By: Summerville

Summerville — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yep, just gotta switch to a different browser and it’ll let you vote again. Cool integration of AJAX though.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cool little script, Mike. I bet it will be swiped and made into a plugin for the big blogging apps in no time. Maybe you should post direct links to the files so it seems less seedy when it happens. :)

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice poll system indeed. Simple, compact, easy to use (it seems) — very nice. :-)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was able to vote twice with Safari. I first voted on this page then hit my back button and was able to vote on the home page. Very nice though. I’m going to have to figure what this AJAX thing is all about.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Guys: With regards to the voting twice thing — If you don’t have the cookie (like if you switch browsers, for instance), you will see the questions again… however, once you submit your vote, your IP address will be checked and your vote won’t count. That is… if everything’s working correctly. :)

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t quite understand what you mean by IP address check. What if the dynamically assigned IP address expires from one client that has already voted, and assigned to another person, according to the logic, the person who got assigned the particular ip address can’t vote.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tom: Yes… IP addresses can expire, but that’s the best spam-proofing you can do without requiring true registration/authentication (something which would probably be excessive for a poll).

What you are saying is correct though. I’m just trying to prevent people from easily being able to spam the system.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What about an option for ‘None of the above’? ;-p

And by the way, currently your sidebar is empty in Deer Park Alpha 2, you might want to look into the reason for that…

(Editor’s Note: I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff on a lot of sites with Deer Park. Not worried at this point as they obviously have some things to work out. But many thanks for the heads-up.)

By: miko

miko — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Other than the IP, what else can you really use for checking?
For instance, on a public computer at an internet CafÃ© two different users might go to the same site — let’s say one already voted, now the second can’t because of the same IP.

But holy moly is this a great Poll system from what I’ve seen!

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

is there a download for the poll?

* sorry if i’m being lazy and can’t find it.