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The following is just a quick draft updating the instructions for embedding coComment into your blogs. With this new approach, you will be able to track *all* the comments posted, not just the ones by fellow coComment users.

This first section you can skip, if coComment already extracts the correct information automatically. You only need it if the automatic extraction on your blog does not work or does not work reliably. This step is already documented in more detail at http://cocomment.com/integrate

  <script type="text/javascript">
    var blogTool                              = "MyBlogManufacturer";
    var blogURL                               = "http://www.domain.com/~myblog";
    var blogTitle                              = "My Blog";
    var postURL                               = "http://www.domain.com/~myblog/?p=42″;
    var postTitle                              = "This is Roger’s \"great\" post";
    var commentTextFieldName   = "messageTextArea";
    var commentButtonName        = "SubmitButton";
    var commentAuthorLoggedIn = true;
    var commentAuthor                 = "Douglas Adams";
    var commentFormName          = "commentForm";
  </script>

In the following second section you'll see the two additional attributes that you will need to include in the script tag if you want to track all comments:

  <script id="cocomment-fetchlet"
    trackAllComments="true"
    src="http://www.cocomment.com/js/enabler.js">
  </script>

Note that in this example I linked to the new enabler.js file instead of the cocomment.js file. Pointing directly to the cocomment.js file should work as well, but I hope loading the enabler.js file first will provide a performance benefit. If you try this new track-all-comments feature with both possible configuration options, pointing to the enabler.js and to the cocomment.js then please let us know whether you notice a performance difference.

Also, keep in mind that this is an experimental feature. We are curious what your experiences will be, how well it will work and where it will break :-)

Chris

Last edited by Mocha (2006-04-30 09:01:29)

Using the enabler.js before calling cocomment.js apparently disregards the cocomment_force setting when it is set to false.

Mocha, if I am using Blogger, where do I put the enabler.js code, please? Is it in the headers of the page?

Convincing Blogger.com to add that option for everybody would be the solution, I guess :-)

@drei: For the record, the recommended approach is to NOT set the cocomment_force global variable to false (basically, to not set it at all) when using the new trackAllComments feature.

Last edited by Mocha (2006-05-01 13:36:01)