Basecamp Comment Controls is a little Greasemonkey script I threw together a couple of nights back. I’m posting it here in the hope others will find it as useful as I do.

Features (version 0.1)

• Adds ‘Docking’ toggle to comment form. Docked position is top right
• Adds textarea resizing functions, including cookie-style storage of preferred height
• Nicer textarea font
• Auto-scroll to comment form’s position

Future Additions

• Clean up the rushed script
• Make a version for Opera 8
• Textile formatting toolbar

Download Basecamp Comment Controls

Please offer suggestions/reports regarding any bugs you find or suggested additions.

In particular some huge issues involving floats breaking across columns have been fixed. Since we use the same code for page layout as for columns, this also means a lot of problems with printing (and print previewing) pages with floats have been fixed

Hopefully this means that floated elements (read: columns) will be continued on the next page, as they should, instead of disappearing into some kind of magical void.

The article referenced above contains some very interesting CSS news regarding columns — go check it out! It looks like Firefox 1.1 is really going to up the stakes in the CSS 2.1 compliance field. Opera and Mozilla are certainly the driving forces at the moment, though I don’t doubt the Safari team are working hard to stay in the game.