How I Fixed the Comment Form

December 22nd, 2005

For the longest time I was having trouble with my comment form. Whenever someone would try to post a comment Typo (the blog engine that runs this site) would eat the comment. Actually, the comment would get posted, but it would look like it got eaten. This resulted in a lot of double comments as people tried to get their comment to post.

I finally figured out that the problem was with Measure Map. For some reason Typo did not like the javascript that Measure Map provides to track the comments on your blog. Measure Map has you place a tiny bit of javascri