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?
This is a test of the "direct" comment system (i.e., via the HTML form)...
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.
Sam also asks if he should have TrackBack RDF in his main page. I say no, for two reasons. First,...
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Trackback from philringnalda.com
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Enhancing Comments with TrackBack.
There has been some interesting discussion over at Sam Ruby's weblog about how to track and enhance comment threads. Sam has now TrackBack enabled his weblog to further the discussion....
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Trackback from tima thinking outloud.
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Sam Ruby Has Trackback Working In Blosxom
Sam Ruby has Trackback working in Blosxom. I like the innovative way that Sam integrates trackback pings with comments such...
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Given that I only had to made some minor tweaks to my comment system to make myself trackback enabled, it only makes sense that the reverse is true!...
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