- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:38:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > > 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 Granted, but that doesn't change the point being made here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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