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When I browse to a specific answer and it has more than five comments, I would like the comments to become expanded automatically instead of having to click the "add/show [x] more comments" - after all, I'm browsing to this specific answer so naturally I would like to see all comments made on it.
For example: How to access a Div inside a repeater using javascript
The activity overview currently links to specific comments, for comments on answers. The scrolling relies on #comment-xx URL fragments, and fails if the comment is initially hidden, bringing one to the top of the page instead.
So, I could either file a bug report for the confusing links, or give this feature request some more attention. Bump! :-) (This has meanwhile been reported as a bug.)
Implementing auto-expanding will still make #comment-xx-links fail if a comment has been deleted, again bringing one to the top of the page rather than to the answer. To gracefully fall back to scrolling to the answer then, some client-side JavaScript-fu would be needed to first see if the comment still exists, and rewrite the fragment if not? If such script is ever considered:
The same JavaScript might be used to show a warning when following a permalink to a deleted answer?
The same JavaScript might be used for questions, if only to use it for direct links to comments. For questions the comments surely should only expand if the URL has a #comment-xx fragment. Such cannot be handled server-side, so surely needs some JavaScript.
