Ian Hickson wrote:
The pingback specification does exactly what the trackback
specification does, but without relying on RDF blocks in comments or
anything silly like that. It just uses the Microformats approach, and
is far easier to use, and doesn't require any additional bits to add
to HTML.
[offtopic]
I'd never heard of pingback. I googled for it and found your website
first, but couldn't find the RFC number. You have a copyright of 2002,
and it appears that Trackback was also developed in 2002. So are you
implying they should have used Pingback instead? It appears they were
developed in parallel?
They were made around the same time (Trackback was invented first). My
point was just that Trackback is not a good example of why you need more
attributes in HTML, since there are equivalent technologies that do it
with existing markup and no loss of detail.
I disagree. The pingback specification does NOT do exactly what the
trackback specification does.
Pingback discovery works for any media type, does not deal with any
granularity smaller than a URL.
Trackback discovery is limited to (X)HTML, but can deal with multiple
entries on a single page. Here's an example:
http://scott.userland.com/2005/11/09.html
- Sam Ruby
