JS-Kit: a simple method for adding comments to any page on your web site
Written on December 3, 2006 – 9:54 pm | by admin
Lev Walkin has published a nice little JavaScript script that allows any webmaster to add comments to any page on a web site using no more than a single line of code.
Lev developed the script to help his wife add a comments section to her sites. The script works by parsing the website’s referral information and returning the correct comments back to the browser. The script is beautiful in its simplicity. I would not build a large site around this script but if you want to quickly add a comments section to some of your pages then this will do the trick. Here is a list of what I think are the pros and cons to JS-Kit,
Pros:
- Simple to use (very simple in fact.)
- You don’t need to register an account to use it
- Customizable via CSS
- Some administrative control is available such as deleting comments.
- Email forwarding of comments in a discussion thread that you have started or replied to.
Cons:
- Easy to spam
- You cannot blacklist IP addresses
- There are no guarantees that the service will be around for as long as your web site. There are also no guarantees of uptime and you have no control over the backend.
- Comments are not indexed by the search engines
- No RSS feed for comments
- You do not own comments posted on your site since all are stored on a remote database
If you are looking for a similar but longer term and feature rich application then you might want to consider using HaloScan.
