Today is May 17, almost a year and a half after the first instance of JS-Kit Comments widget went out in the wild. The funny thing is, during this time we never had a chance to create a page summing up all the features of our commenting system. If you had an opportunity to add another feature rather than crafting a page describing all the magic you already have, what would be your choice?

To make a long story short, here's a list of features. I can guarantee there's something missing from this list, but at least this is a good starting point.

A nice ice breaker for a new JS-Kit Blog too!

Deployment and support

• No need to authenticate to leave a comment
• Lightweight, script-based integration
• Dedicated on-line support

User features

• Threaded or flat comments
• Comment sorting and ordering by date, name, karma
• Native avatars support
• Rich Text formatting (HTML and WYSIWYG modes)
• Straightforward embedding of YouTube videos
• Delete your comments
• Receive comments and reply straight to thread via email
• Community scoring (Karma), i.e., "Like this comment? [yes] [no]" thing.
• Automatic community moderation: "Mark as offensive"
• TrackBack and PingBack support

Customization and Administration

• Fully customizable with CSS
• Customizable fields and layout with templates
• Customizable presentation (i.e., full in-line, pagination)
• Integrated, object-level 5-Star Ratings (Also available as "Reviews" with greater integration)
• Pre-moderation: all comments pre-moderated or only comments from new users
• Post-moderation: blocking by multiple IPs, name, etc.
• Global (single point) or "inline" moderation
• Multi-moderator support for configurable subsections of the site
• Obscenity filter (admin-defined)

Security, Authentication and Data Access

• Automatic SPAM protection via Akismet
• OpenID or cookie-based authentication
• Publisher control of comment data (RSS, export example)
• Ability to switch CMS platforms without losing comments
• Safe HTML subset support
• Automatic browser detected language support for English, Japanese, French, Spanish, German and a dozen more