How to Post Comments to Blogs without a Web Browser

Posted by Prolific Programmer Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:17:00 GMT

Oftentimes, I'll read a blog entry and want to make a comment on it. I'll open it in my web browser and the rest of the blog posts I don't share and then go back and comment, read, or trackback as I see fit. I do think it would be nice if I could post comments to the entries from within the reader. The solution to this lies in a 2003 post entitled the comment API, which wraps a comment around RSS 2.0.

Let me mull over this for a few hours and I'll post some code to accomplish this on the client-side.