I’m not especially thrilled about the ugly little coComment control-bar that the script slaps on the bottom of my comment box, but I don’t think there’s an easy way to change that.
In any case, I think that everything is working. But I don’t use coComment. So, for those of you that do, I’d be glad to hear feedback on how it pans out.
]]>I know that coComment has JavaScript code that bloggers can put into their comment forms to integrate the form with coComment, even if users don’t use the GreaseMonkey script or the bookmark. I wonder if that would fix the problem. Well, there’s a project for the evening. I’ll let you know if I find out anything interesting.
]]>As for the PayPal weirdness, I think I know the cause of the problem. Earlier today I installed the coComment Firefox extension. At some stage I disabled it. As a test just now I re-enabled it, and was once again directed to PayPal. I’m tech-ignorant, but my guess is that something about your customized template weirds it out.
It’s once again disabled, so I’m crossing my fingers (while typing, no less!) that this one will go through.
]]>Very strange. I don’t know why that would have happened, unless there were some kind of error with the HTML (the PayPal donation page and the comment form are separate HTML form elements, but if the end of one were broken, then a browser might somehow end up using information from the other). But I just checked the HTML, and it validates just fine. So it’s something of a mystery to me.
I checked the comment you left and your user account. Everything with that seems to have gone more or less fine, except that WordPress should have done something more intelligent with the information that it got about your name, which would have given you the username “smallylerned” instead of leaving it anonymous. I’ll probably do something to fix that tomorrow evening, if I have the time.
]]>I haven’t been able to repeat it.
]]>Thanks for the kind words!
At present I think that OpenID hasn’t been explained very well because (1) although there are some big OpenID providers (LJ, WordPress.com, AIM), there are very few OpenID consumers, so you can’t yet use your OpenID to do very much. The few blogs that have integrated it into their commenting system are generally blogs written by and for web technology geeks, basically as an exercise in showing off an implementation of the technology. So it’s presumed that most or all of the people who might conceivably use an OpenID somewhere are people who already understand something about what OpenID is and what it’s for. When (if) it comes into more widespread use, hopefully there will be more deliberate efforts to explain it in understandable terms. Consider the implementation here my little contribution towards doing some of the spreading and the explaining.
]]>1) I’ve been reading for a while now, but haven’t felt inspired to comment on anything in particular. That is not, however, a comment on the quality of this blog, which is excellent.
2) I’ve seen “OpenID” all over the place, but you’re the first person I’ve come across to ever bother explaining exactly what it was and how to use it for comments. Thanks.
]]>Thanks. I’ve taken the liberty of moving your actual comments over to the original posts. I guessed that the first of the two comments was possibly intended for Working Within The System comix, but if that’s a boneheaded place to put it, drop me a line and I’ll be glad to move it.
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