Hello, no, I'm not dead, I've been thinking and working on the rating system, and was hoping I could some advice from you folks. Here is what is bothering me: a) Logic. What should non-admins see? Ideally I'd like to mimic the tagging policy, e.g. show a read-only rating for items that have been rated, nothing at all on the others. The problem here is that the current implementation doesn't offer a simple way to render a read-only rating. b) CSS. The current implementation uses a very ugly CSS hack to display the stars next to the "Rating" label. This breaks horribly on non-English locales (just try and switch to German to see what I mean) c) Markup. The current implementation downloads a s***load of markup for every item. d) License. I'm not sure the original author actually released his code under a "public" license. [ http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2005/08/24/creating-a-star-rater-using-css/ ] Possible solutions: - move the rating system to the dynamic item-editing dialog. This would fix c) and possibly b) but would hide the rating from non-admins and require an additional click to rate items. - find a whole new implementation, maybe more javascript than CSS based. Could possibly resolve c) and probably b) What are your thoughts on this? Thanks, -m