That nice javascript for hooking into the newsgator rating systems ...

Can we rip it out and put it on our own sites, so we can let people use the newsgator ratings (if we point a credit your way?)

(not that I already did it or anything just to see if it worked. Nope. Honest. :whistling

You probably don't want to grab what you find on the web edition as-is.  However...I just got the last few kinks ironed out, and we have a script you can use now.

The new script will correctly deal with users being logged-in or logged-out.  It supports inline ratings when logged-in (same experience as when you're using the online site), and uses a popup for rating when the user isn't logged in.

Here's what you need to add to your site:

<p>Rate this post: <script src="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/ratings.aspx?rurl=<$MTEntryPermalink$>"></script> (data provided from <a href="http://www.newsgator.com">NewsGator Online</a> )</p>

The above works for, say, Movable Type. If you wanted to set this up for another weblog tool, just replace <$MTEntryPermalink$> with the permalink for the post you want to rate. And of course the <script> tag is the part you really need - the rest you can change how you like.

You can see this in action on my own weblog at http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/. I'm actually putting together a weblog post on this now, along with documentation for the NewsGator Online site. You're getting this info before it's even published!

Since you'll be one of the first to use this feature, please post back here with your site's URL if you add the ratings to it, so we can look things over and make sure things are working ok.  Thanks!

http://idunno.org

Oh pretty stars.

Intersting, it looks slightly different in mozilla/firefox, there's a line break after the stars.

Hmm just noticed in my logs

Oh. I assume those are the rating images and the script has bodged up the URLs somewhere?

The new edition of Community server (.text next-gen) has this.

http://www.communityserver.org/