[citeman]

I think the idea is fantastic but it will have problems working with large very active forums. I was thinking maybe if static files could be used to create and update the threads instead of pulling it from the database it may perform better.

I mean when posts are posted in Live Topic store them as compressed html files in a folder and then have the ajax script check for new posts in the thread and pull those files and display them. This could also get rid of those nasty incompatibilities. Since the post will be stored with everything processed it would just be a matter of pulling and displaying the html.

I am thinking about having this developed properly - please contact me if you could work out something like this. I would bear the development cost and of course it would be free for all.