Features

new features: (Mar 10, 2010)

1. In your account, you may now view comments received on all your sites.

Bugs

1. [FIXED] comments should be rendered in ascending date order when box is at the bottom.
2. [FIXED] messages hidden in form.
3. [FIXED] long words stretch the comment box.
4. [FIXED] can't disable profanity filter

Other Features Added in Somewhat Recent History

1. The moderator's comments are now marked with the word "mod" in italics, so visitors cannot impersonate him/her as easily.
2. New skin with rounded corners & shadows. Also, a skin chooser on the main page.
3. Watermarked field labels.
4. Fine tuned approval control, accessed from within your account. (if you re-copy the code, you may to need to re-approve your old comments.)
5. New option to ignore query strings in URLs (all pages with URLs only differing after the "?" will have the same comments).
6. Optionally receive emails when you get a new comment.
7. Publish RSS feed of comments.
8. You can now pay to remove the htmlcommentbox.com link from your comment box.
9. The copied code is now w3c valid xhtml 1.0.
10. Clickable links.
11. Performance improvements.
12. More sensible default styles. (added some space around comment entries. Comment box textarea now fills horizontal space available)
13. Rich text editor (experimental). [this has been disabled temporarily because of IE bugs.]
14. Advanced comment form label customization.
15. New, stricter malicious code euphemizer.
16. You can now choose to approve comments before they're published.
17. Control the number of comments shown per page.
18. There's an optional profanity filter.
19. Deleting comments is done via ajax so you don't have to reload the page each time.
20. Added some anti-spam and anti-bot features added. Disclosing them would decrease their effectiveness, so I'll just let you know they exist and leave it at that.
21. Older comments are separated onto pages, 10 comments per page.
22. Date displaying has been improved (timezones caused inaccuracy previously).
23. Visitors can now use <b>,<i>,<strong>,<em> and <big> tags in their comments.
24. you can now choose whether show the date of submitted comments
25. place comment box at top or bottom of comments