Since it seems that the weirdness that I’m having with commenting with Mid Century seems to be related to the AJAX commenting, I’m wanting to strip the AJAX features out of the commenting.
I have no idea what AJAX is or how it works, so I have no idea how to do it. Can anyone give me some insight into accomplishing that?
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I just left a comment on your site and can't see what the problem is. Looks like it's working fine. I too use the Mid-Century template set and I compared the two in source view. The only difference seems to be that you're referencing the theme-javascript without actually using it. I know it shouldn't matter but removing it might make a difference.
On a post with many comments, the issue is not easy to see. Rather than simply displaying the new comment, it displays the post twice with the comments after. A refresh of the page fixes it.
I think it's the AJAX that is supposed to allow the new comment to be added without a page refresh. What I'm seeing is slow commenting with little feedback and an incorrectly displayed page. Without the AJAX, I don't think things would be slower and the page would display properly after. I just don't know how to remove the AJAX.
On the theme-javascript, you mentioned in you comment on my site that it was for the gallery, which I'm not yet using. I didn't change the templates, I think there's an mt:if statement that doesn't include the gallery if there are no assets, which is true in my case. I'd like to leave that in as I plan to use it, eventually.
I did a little digging and I figured out how to de-AJAX Mid-Century and now my commenting works fine.