JS-Kit: Add Comments to Any Page
Every now and then someone comes up with a way to make a complex thing incredibly simple and leaves you wondering — why didn’t I think of that? That’s exactly the case with Lev Walkin’s JS-Kit comment script.
One of the outstanding features of social internet sites is the ability to leave comments on just about anything, blog posts, saved links, uploaded videos, you name it and there’s probably a way for you to express your opinions via comments.
But for amateur web developers creating a comments system can often be a complex and intimidating undertaking. JS-Kit reduces that undertaking to pasting a single line of code into your webpage. Just add this line to your site:
<script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>
That line activates Walkin’s comment code which then uses your IP address to fetch the comments from his server.
The script creates threaded comments so you can comment on both the main content and what other people have said. Other niceties including an option to be notified by email whenever some replies to your comment.
You can also embed multiple instances of the script on the same page if you’d like for instance, to have a photo gallery page with individual comments per photo.
For those with the CSS knowhow, it’s fairly easy to customize your JS-Kit comments to fit the design of your site.
JS-Kit is brand new and lacks a few important comment features like spam protection, but that and other new features are already in the works.
Some people will no doubt be a little nervous about storing their comment data on another person’s server, after all what happens if that server crashes or just plain disappears? Perhaps in the future they’re will be a way to store comments locally, but for now I don’t know of a simpler way to add comments to your web pages.
Found via TechCrunch.
