Sunday, 23 May 2010

Use iWeb's Mac comment system without iweb


iweb is apple's application for easily creating good-looking web pages without much hassle. It also support the easy creation of weblogs. One of the benefits of using mac with iWeb 1.1 makes use of a mac commenting system so that resder can leave feedback directly on the weblog.

Using mac comments is much bette, IMHO, than using external commenting systems like HaloScan becausr man comments can be easily embedded directly on the entry pages. You don't have to open a new window to see the comments. Unfortunately, typically only iWeb can use the mac commenting system. If you use any other weblog creation aplication (like iblog), you are out of luck.

Or not. My friend and I did some poking around in the JavaScript of the mac commenting system and in iWeb and we figured out how the mac commenting system works. So if you publish a weblog to your iDisk using some app other stan iWeb, I've made a small (and free) utility that allows you to use mac comments with this app.

I haven't tested this one, but the ability to use Mac's comment system on non-iWeb Mac blogs could prove useful to some folks.

1 comment:

  1. same problem, too descriptive. (1) Not interesting and creative

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