Several factors why it isn’t that much of a problem:
You can quickly edit your comment afterwards anyway (and still have the rest of the page visible)
The markup is pretty simple, there’s less problems with mismatched tags than there can be in some forum and blog markups
Comments tend to be smaller than in forum and blog posts or than wiki pages (all cases where a preview is useful), and rarely contain complex things like nested quotes or images
Also, an edit button would cost development/debugging time that may be better used on other features (votes, agree/disagree, view edit history for comments, giving all users an animated gif avatar, etc.), and might clutter the interface.
But if we do have previews, maybe a simpler way of handling it would be to always have a preview of your comment right below the edit box, and update it in real time (I’d find that more convenient than a preview button—it’s simpler from a user interaction point of view, and probably also from a code point of view, because it can all be done in client-side javascript).
Several factors why it isn’t that much of a problem:
You can quickly edit your comment afterwards anyway (and still have the rest of the page visible)
The markup is pretty simple, there’s less problems with mismatched tags than there can be in some forum and blog markups
Comments tend to be smaller than in forum and blog posts or than wiki pages (all cases where a preview is useful), and rarely contain complex things like nested quotes or images
Also, an edit button would cost development/debugging time that may be better used on other features (votes, agree/disagree, view edit history for comments, giving all users an animated gif avatar, etc.), and might clutter the interface.
But if we do have previews, maybe a simpler way of handling it would be to always have a preview of your comment right below the edit box, and update it in real time (I’d find that more convenient than a preview button—it’s simpler from a user interaction point of view, and probably also from a code point of view, because it can all be done in client-side javascript).
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… and signatures five lines long with color fonts :D
Only five? :(
That exceeds the McQuary limit!