Syncato has Trackback support

I just finished adding Trackback support to Syncato. This includes Trackback auto-discovery on Syncato posts. This turned out to be really easy, I'd guess less then an hour or so to write the code. It did take a while to get the auto-discovery working right due to an error in the Trackback spec. In the example auto-discovery RDF they have dc:identifier named dc:identifer which took a while to track down. If I hadn't used good old copy and paste I probably would have been better off. Oh well.

I tested this with Movabletype and it seems to work, but it could certainly use more testing. If you have a trackback enabled site it'd be great if you could try pinging this entry and letting me know if it works right.

I still need to implement the other half of auto-discovery. That is when you add a post to Syncato that it goes out and automatically pings the sites you link to. What I currently have allows others to ping a Syncato site, but I don't actually have the ability to send pings yet.

Posted by Kimbro Staken