Show Selected Icon on Comment Preview Pages

[strangesequitur]

Title:
Show Selected Icon on Comment Preview Pages

Area:
comments, entries

Summary:
Users should be able to see the icon they have selected on the Comment Preview page, and be able switch to a different icon at this stage, in much the same way that they can edit the text of a comment before submitting it.

Description:
When choosing an icon to accompany a comment to an entry, you're generally flying somewhat blind. Even with robust, descriptive Icon Tags in place, choosing an incorrect icon is a common slip-up.

The Comment Preview feature -- which is delightful and much improved from the code it spawned from -- includes previews of the comment title and text, but no icon preview. It also allows for the editing of these fields, but no option to change the selected icon. (You have to back out to the previous page to change the icon, possibly losing edits made at the Preview stage, etc. It's inelegant.)

I would very much like a visual preview of the icon I've chosen, and the ability to easily change my selection, for those rare times when my sleepy brain and dull-witted hamfingers have chosen something wildly inappropriate.

Barring a visual preview, even just the text of the icon description would be better than nothing -- one final warning in case you weren't paying attention to, say, what Random Icon was chosen, for instance.

Essentially, I want the same dynamic icon preview feature we have on the Update page. I can see how the server load and processing power might be prohibitive, though, and I suspect that if it were as easy as all that it would have been done already.

Poll #4951 Show Selected Icon on Comment Preview Pages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 76

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Should be implemented as-is.
72 (94.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (3.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[0jack]

Every time I preview, I go back to double-check my icon, because my short-term memory is shot. By the time I've re-read my comment, I can't remember what icon I thought would be appropriate. (I am often WRONG about the icon--esp. on accounts where I have icons made of snark.) This would be awesome.

[turlough]

Yes, yes, PLEASE!