I'm Trackback enabled
I finally got around to looking at trackback. Phil and Paul are right... from the perspective of the post being pinged, a trackback is simply a comment from another source (modulo naming differences, e.g., what I call "comment", tb calls "excerpt", etc.).
So by accepting either name, and adding a wodge of TrackBack mumbo-jumbo to each comment page, and it looks like I'm done! (Question: should I have added it to each entry in my index.html page? Seems like a lot of overhead to me).
Note: it looks like the norm is to ping an entry using HTTP GET. While I support this, I've also made sure that I support the more RESTful HTTP POST equivalent.
Can somebody with trackback enabled client try pinging this entry?
Another TrackBacker
Thank Ghu, Sam Ruby has Trackback. I've been commenting so much over there of late that I've got more contentPosted by philringnalda.com at
Well, that was easy!
Is it sufficiently obvious that a comment which ends in midstream is a TrackBack ping and the posted by link leads to the rest of the comment? Of course, I always like my own stuff best, but I do like linking "more..." at the end of the excerpt to make it extra obvious that someone didn't just wander off in mid-sentence.
Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
OK, I've tried to provide a few visual clues when I get "excerpts" rather than "comments". Phil, please try again.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Just say no to TrackBack in index.html
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Enhancing Comments with TrackBack.
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Sam Ruby Has Trackback Working In Blosxom
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Comments a la TrackBacks
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Another TrackBacker
Thank Ghu, Sam Ruby has Trackback. I've been commenting so much over there of late that I've got more content......Excerpt from phil ringnalda dot com: Another TrackBacker: Comments at
OK, I've tried to provide a few visual clues when I get "excerpts" rather than "comments". Phil, please try again.... [more]...
Excerpt from phil ringnalda dot com: Another TrackBacker: Comments at
Just say no to TrackBack in index.html
Sam also asks if he should have TrackBack RDF in his main page. I say no, for two reasons. First,......Excerpt from phil ringnalda dot com: Just say no to TrackBack in index.html: Comments at
This is a test of the "direct" comment system (i.e., via the HTML form)...
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