As many of you who may use Posterous are probably aware, Posterous does not currently allow the use of Javascript within its themes.  This has been preventing me from installing one of my favorite blog widgets, gooseGrade, since I started using Posterous late last year. 

Luckily, the good folks at gooseGrade (soon to be rebranded as Editz.com) now have a solution for those who want to use their widget on Posterous blogs – or any other platform that doesn’t allow Javascript – and it is incredibly easy to use.  Simply place the following in your template where you would like gooseGrade’s “Copy Edit” button to appear, and you’re all set:

Look Ma, No JavaScript!

(Insert your gooseGrade site ID where indicated in the source above)

As you’ll notice, there is zero Javascript here, meaning it will work just fine on Posterous or anywhere else (at least I suspect) that Javascript is off-limits. 

I’m not sure how they accomplish (ok, yes I do, but that’s not the point) all of this Web 2.0-beautifulness without having to use Javascript (or any scripting language) embedded in my site, but its super slick – try it out yourself by clicking my new “Copy Edit” button which should appear to the right of this post!

So, hats off to the guys at gooseGrade for finally bringing crowdsourced copy editing to Posterous – a place it is surely needed as so many posts here are made while on the go.  From now on, should you find any typos, errors, or other various embarrassments in any of my posts here – please click that handy Copy Edit button and let me know about them.  Thanks in advance.

 PS – For those who would like to “play” with that Copy Edit button, consider this a sandbox post (I’ll ignore any edits sent to this page).  Enjoy!

Disclosure: gooseGrade.com / Editz.com is a current client of DIME PR.