Comments on: Trackback Integration

By: billie

billie — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:07:25 +0000

This is very interesting site

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:06:15 +0000

Melanie - that's why I kept the url, but made it fairly unobtrusive... I think I might add a form like that here, specific to this site. Not that anyone would use it, but it might be fun to work out how to get it working.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:57:25 +0000

On the other hand, having a visible trackback URL does allow non-MT/Typepad users to ping trackbacks manually (eg. with this form).

By: Reading

Reading — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:41:25 +0000

Autopederasty of the Weblog

This is autopederasty of the weblog.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:57:47 +0000

Ah, I see what autodiscovery does now. Bloody clever. Assuming i can work out the MT tags for the template, i'll take your cue and go for inline trackbackability. I think if the people who make this stuff stopped to think 'Will my mom get this?' at some point, we'd have a lot more genuinely useful tools kicking about...

By: Tom Coates

Tom Coates — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:00:28 +0000

Basically I think that Trackback without the autodiscovery element engaged is a terrible terrible hack that shouldn't be allowed to exist on web pages. It feels really gimmicky. I just won't put that URL visibly on my site. Exposing that level of code unnecessarily to people like my mum just seems dirty!

So no - I'm prepared to meet that cost head-on. We have to push people (if we're going to stick with Trackback as a model) to the auto-discovery method as soon as possible.