There is a new text entry box on the edit-post page for entering an address to ping. This is being discussed ad nauseum on the Manila-Dev list, or you can wait until it’s released, I’d be happy to set you up with a test site on one of our servers so you can review it. It’s definitely still fluid.
I just wanted to give Manila users the feature that MT users have. Beyond that I don’t know, at this time, where it will go or what it will be used for and why Referers aren’t enough. (I kind of think they are.)
Now a feature reuqest back atcha. Could you increase the font size on this site. My poor eyes can’t read the text without me having to copy it and paste it into an email message. In the old days I would say just leave off the font tag, but if I said that some wiener boy would flame me for not supporting standards.
]]>Speaking as more of a salami boy, the font size isn’t a problem because Phil supports standards like CSS! Anyhow, you can set the font size through Internet Options -> Accessibility with Internet Explorer, or hold the ctrl key and move your mouse scroll wheel.
]]>If I change the font size, stupid ole MSIE ”remembers” it, and from that point on every window I open is in the bigger font size, making the letters jumbo-size which is a bad joke given all I wanted to was read Phil’s brilliant words.
Life inside the locked trunk is great.
]]>So what’s the answer? Make Trackback always manual? Then what’s the point of the RDF bits? So the user can enter the URL of the page instead of the Trackback ping URL? (Seems like a pretty small thing.)
I have a hard time answering this question because as I’ve said, I don’t really ”get” Trackback, but I know some users want it.
]]>Anyone (Dave?) working on implementing the trackbacks-as-comments thing for Radio – please read this! It would be very cool if the bits PyCS has added on to the xmlStorageSystem API could be supported by RCS…
]]>I’ve bookmarked your message. I’m going to do a little more work on this and then pass it over to Jake. Then I’ll ask him what he thinks about an addendum to the xmlStorageSystem spec.
And anticipating a complaint from Danny, yes I am the sole maintainer of the xmlStorageSystem spec. No one else wanted the job. Believe me. ;->
]]>As you saw when you tried pinging my blog the other day, I don’t have the RDF bits in there by default. (I added them for your use, but not across the board.) And I don’t support the old, GET-based ping, either. It’s PUT or nothing, as far as I’m concerned. So having established that I’m an odd duck in the world of Trackback, I’d suggest turning TB on by default, while making autodiscovery a toggle.
FWIW, I’m very fond of TB. Beyond broad, site-wide traffic analysis, I’ve never been all that interested in referrers… they just don’t tell me much without a click-through. Trackback, OTOH, tells me a lot with every ping. I just find it handy.
]]>I just have an idea that may or may not work, but is an interesting option (for me anyway.) It makes it a little for difficult for the user, but its just an option. Present a list of URLs to scan for trackback to the user with checkboxes. It gives a little more control, without making the user type or paste the URLs to trackback in again.
I think I probably will implement this as an option. I am not sure if there is a way to read HTTP headers to find out file size, I think there is, but I also think it is not always set. So you might still end up reading a 5mb file.
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