Suggestions

[ex_peasant441]

1. format=light should not exist, or if it must exist then it should be subordinate to style=mine. Perhaps the best compromise would be to replace it with a style=light so it was immediately apparent what was going on.
2. There needs to be an option to have the standard navigation toolbar appear as text links, not images. I like to browse with images on so I can see people's icons, but on days when I am having cognitive difficulties I don't want to have to work out what a bunch of icons means - text is always understandable.
3. When reading a sub-thread of comments, the standard navigation toolbar needs to include a link back up to the main entry so the person can read all the comments not just the sub-thread. I got linked directly to a sub-comment thread and couldn't work out how to break out using the on-screen navigation.
4. The page title of a sub-thread also needs to clearly reflect that this is a sub-page not the top level one - it took me some while to work out where I was and what was going on.
5. Most users don't understand the difference between a link that goes to a specific comment and one that goes to the entry as a whole, therefore on every comment both options should be available and clearly distinguished.

Comments

[ex_peasant441]

In LJ, for pages displaying sub comment threads, both the title and the navigation toolbar can be changed using S2. There is a property: viewing_thread which exposes the fact that it is a thread not the top level. I haven't familiarised myself with the DW code yet, but I assume it is similar. So this would probably be an issue for whoever codes the S2 Core.