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.
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