I relented and added support for threaded comments to Simplish for the upcoming WordPress 2.7. I have some initial code and a demo up at labs.utopian.net. So now we load a JavaScript — but only when the threaded comments setting is true, and even then only on single post views.

I’m not sure about supporting in Simplish the eventual threaded comments in WordPress ≥ 2.7. The threads feature is fine enough, but so is a simple theme that doesn’t load any JavaScript.