23 Sep 2002
Mon, 23 Sep 2002
Decafbad Says Pingback One-ups Trackback
Decafbad says that Pingback One-Ups trackback. If that link doesn't work for you, it may be because decafbad is melting down:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query() in /home/deusx/www/php-lib/decafbad/refer_lib.php on line 78
I coudln't get any of his .phtml archives to load - they just display a blank page. But you can just load the homepage and look for pingback.
My basic reaction is "uh, no". Trackback works. Pingback is a spec with a bunch of links associated which 1) crashed my IE6, and 2) threw a bunch of error boxes and 404-like dead links once I brought up mozilla.
If pingback's so great, where is the demonstrable code? The stuff that I found via the links on decafbad is horribly broken. The idea sounds great, but without working code, all this talk about automatic interoperability is pointless.
I'd ping decafbad's trackback server, but I can't get to that on account of the aforementioned errors. Hope he gets everything working again. I like reading decafbad.
Update I emailed lm orchard and he replied and said that he'd run out of disk. Yikes. Hopefully, he'll get it resolved, as of this morning, I still couldn't get past his home page.
Posted at: 22:22 | permalink
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 that they're nearly transparent. Ironically, that's exactly what I was getting at when I commented on Sam's blog a few days ago. The only problem that I see with Sam's implementation is that the trackback thread only points back to Sam's blog, as if they are all comments from sam's blog, not the individual trackback entries, which are more useful since they are full and not merely excerpted.
Posted at: 18:23 | permalink
RSS Feeds Via Email
Does anybody care about receiving RSS feeds via email? Morbus and I were talking about this last month and I've hacked together enough perl script to grab the RSS and parse it, tranform it into HTML using XSLT, and send it via email with the proper HTML mime type. I'm now at a point where I need some feedback on whether the rest of the world is interested in such a beast. I'm particularly interested in discerning the number of amphetadesk or non-amphetadesk users who are interested in receiving RSS feeds via email. Take the poll. One design that I'm considering would allow you to provide your own XSL skin such that the transform that you received in your email would be exactly what you asked for, or you could use the default.
Posted at: 09:39 | permalink
