Give me long enough, and enough clues, and eventually I’ll catch on. I completely failed to grasp why Jim wouldn’t use RSS 1.0 because <title> is required. I didn’t really get why he supported TrackBack but didn’t fake a <dc:title> so that the Movable Type “Select a TrackBack entry to ping” select list was mostly […]
Coming soon to a Movable Type installation near you: MT 2.5 will allow you to ping blo.gs and other weblogs.com compatible services, obsoleting my hack to do it, and will stop spam-pinging weblogs.com, only pinging when an entry is first published (whether its a new entry, or newly going from draft to publish), obsoleting my […]
Back in the day, using Blogger Classic, I didn’t much miss post titles. If I was doing a blog that required them, I faked them up with markup, and if I didn’t need them I just plunged right in. Now, after five months of Blogger Pro and another three of Movable Type, I can’t imagine […]
Despite the fact that I think they’re both joking, I presume that other people will think that using PHP and user-agent sniffing to hide TrackBack RDF from validators is cheating, or wrong, or that the page with RDF in it remains in some meaningful sense invalid. I don’t think so. While it’s true that a […]
It’s been far too long since I did anything for Blogger (yeah, let’s skip the obvious reply to that), so by request, here’s a little javascript to translate the weekdays in Blogger’s BlogDateHeaderDate to whatever suits you. Add to your main template, somewhere between <head> and </head>: <script type=”text/javascript”> function changeWeekday(dateheader){ var splitDate = dateheader.split(“,”); […]
When I saw back in July that pb added TrackBack to onfocus.com’s comment system, I just thought that it was an interesting reuse of existing code. It wasn’t until I went back just now, while gathering links for a post on third-party TrackBack, that the other shoe dropped, and I realized just what an elegant, […]
I was never a very big fan of N.Z. Bear’s Blogosphere ecosystem, despite the category names, probably because the minimal overlap with my own ecosystem meant that I only made a brief appearance as a Insignificant Microbe. Even without cute categories, I much prefer fellow Phil’s blogging ecosystem, since starting from scripting.com and weblogs.com has […]
While considering adding “Related:” links to my various posts on TrackBack and XHTML validation, I discovered that I don’t seem to have ever actually posted the current semi-official best practice / lesser of evils solution. So, here’s an executive summary of the possible solutions, leading up to the current situation: The problem: TrackBack inserts a […]
Tonight’s second plugin from the Ulrich Plugin Foundry is an interesting twist on TrackBack: TrackForward is a plugin to list the TrackBack urls that an entry pinged, for easy gathering by the next person to come into a conversation. This entry is pinging his, so the TrackBack popup will have an example of TrackForward in […]
I didn’t realize how much I was missing Blogger’s late, surprisingly not very lamented, “remote editing” feature, until I put in the other Phil’s new plugin, EntryEditLink, which links your choice of text (my choice being one of the pipes in the byline) to the page to edit your entry (assuming, of course, that you […]