An update to VKontakte’s comments widget, and some new little features

The com­ments widget from VKontakte, the Russian social net­work, which I wrote about earlier, has finally got a system for mod­er­at­ing comments. So now it’s more or less usable. I’ve hooked it back up to the prod­ucts in the Alisa online store.

Even so, the com­ment form dis­plays crookedly in every ver­sion of IE: the text field peri­od­i­cally shrinks to a strip about 5px wide. Unpleasant.

The new little fea­tures are a widget à la Facebook “Like”, “I like this”, and a widget for groups. In Explorer, again, glitches have been spot­ted in the “I like” button. Just as you’d expect.

Conclusion: it’s too early to show such things to users who’ve been cursed with Explorer :(

The new fea­tures are useful and inter­est­ing, given VKontakte’s audience. We’ll see how users react to them.

Update, March 1, 2011. It looks like the com­ments widget now works better in Explorer. So now, I sup­pose, it can be shown to users of that dinosaur too.