Adding Comments
I have decided that I should add comments to my blog. Unfortunately it is not so easy as it should be, because:
- My blog pages are statically generated.
- There doesn't appear to be any "out-of-the-box" open-source AJAX comment engines that run on PHP and MySQL (which is what is available on my basic Godaddy account).
So I am starting off with an external comment service, of which Haloscan seems to be the most functional.
At the moment the comments are only visible/editable in a pop-up menu. It should be easy to make something happen inside the original window using Ajax, but I can't see anything ready to install for this on the Haloscan site. Maybe it would cause them too much traffic.
Also the comment count doesn't update immediately in the link.
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