Looks good, Nez. I'm not big on haloscan anyway. I hope it helps you solve the problems you've been dealing with. Maybe you'll start getting trackbacks from our shadowy Netscape-using friends in DC.

Cheers.

Thanks Kai...stuff will still be buggy and jumping around tho...even tho i tested it on my testing blog, when i brought it over i made the mistake of trying to tweak here, so, oh well. i'm messing with styles and such. so style elements may change.

after this, what i'll have to figger out is how to get gravatars to show. i used to have them show with regular templates so perhaps i have some old code leftover on my other blogs i think so. maybe. because i like the gravatars, they add personality and...graphics!

Hmmm I thinketh this cookie action suck because I check "remember me" and the page simply refuses. Damn amnesiac pages anyway.

Oh...and this "importing haloscan comments by hand" seems to be slightly more of a job than I had originally thought. jeje.

well, i like that this opens the comments on the same page, versus the haloscan pop up. it's nice to have the comments actually with the text of the post.

It is different. Feels like one conversation, post and comments joined. And I JUST figured out finally how to work Gravatars in, so now I'm totally happy. Just have to pick another day to import a lot of old comments. there's some good conversations I do not want to lose. But a lot of boring work to be done.

I should hire an "intern." jeje

Yeah I also like seeing the post and comments all in the same frame. That's part of my problem with haloscan: just look at a blog like Atrios where the threads usually have almost nothing to do with the post. I guess that's kind of appropriate over there, since Atrios doesn't really write much, he just links and everybody else starts a food fight. But at a high-falutin' literary joint such as this, I think it's more appropriate to have it all tied together.

fyi I'm not able to get your blog to remember me either bitterly or sweetly, it's like a noir movie, no memory of the crime.

And wow, migrating all your comments by hand does sound like a task. You go, "ese".

I KNOW the cookies are toast, meng. Drivin' me nuts. But you know what? I've improved so much about this blog...from bringing old templates forward, upgrading software, plugins, design, so....One thing at a time. But maybe I can work that cookie thing out in a week or two. Meanwhile, just click the box and imagine it is labeled "hope." In fact, that's a good idea. I should change that label. Something like "What happens if you check this?" jeje.

i love the noir line.

(i think the gravatar icons look better against this background, personally.)

it's just paying off all around.

worklist:

- make easy link/italic/bold etc buttons for commenters.

- make commenting textbox bigger. DONE

- offer RSS feed for comment pages.

- make comments editable for a short amount of time by author.

This can all be done, I'll do it all now that I have more control over code, instead of Halospam....I always knew one day I'd wish the commenting system was all contained within my own blog.

je-je. I like the "Remember me? Bitterly and sweetly?" Or not. I am end of long day fighting with Bill Gates (aka MS Word) on my computer and I am ready to cry. So muchos props to your for doing something quite a bit more complicated. My html code and web-page/blog code knowledge tanks. (I never say things like "tank" - I think the computer has warped my mind).

Bill's a punk!