Negative Space: comments
- Auto-closing HTML tags in comments
- One of the biggest problems on blogs is that comments often get stuck with unclosed italics, bold, or links. You can automatically close them by transforming the HTML snippet into an XML document.
- Comment on the Broadsheet
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I’ve enabled comments on recent articles on this blog. A long time ago I used Haloscan, but that didn’t work out very well and eventually they were bought by JS-Kit. I use JS-Kit for the main blog, but they started charging sometime afterward, and while the hoboes.com address is grandfathered in, the godsmonsters.com address was not.
- New comments system live for Mimsy!
- I’ve made the new comments system live. You can now hide in all your anonymous glory and not get tracked by the Man!
- Parsing JSKit/Echo XML comments files
- While I’m not a big fan of remote comment systems for privacy reasons, I was willing to use JSKit as a temporary solution because they provide an easy XML dump of posted comments. This weekend, I finally moved my main blog to custom comments; here’s how I parsed JSKit’s XML file.
- Parsing JSKit/Echo XML using PHP
- In the comments, dpusa wants to import JSKit comments into WordPress, which uses PHP. Here’s how to parse them using PHP.
- Preflighting blog comments in the Pythonista share screen
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I now use Pythonista’s sharing extension to ensure that comments on other people’s blogs are appropriately formatted.
- The Ten Commandments of commenting (turned up to eleven)
- Rule zero is always in effect: post intelligently.
