And Now, Backlinks!
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Blogger has just introduced backlinks. They're something like trackbacks. Actually, I'm not too familiar with trackbacks, so I'm not clear on how backlinks differ. I've read people saying backlinks are not "true" trackbacks, and I don't know what they mean... yet.
Anyways, I was finding, at first, that backlinks took a really long time to load, and it also had a bug with my Mozilla browser that caused text to become unselectable. The issues were a bit too annoying, so I waited. Well, now, it looks like they've resolved those issues, so look! Right beside the "comments" link, there's a "backlinks" link!
Now, the XHTML 1.0 validation I worked so hard to achieve has gone to hell in a handbasket in my post pages, because of another small bug: a bogus backlink entry is produced even if a post has no backlinks. *sigh* I hope they fix that issue soon. I was quite proud of my XHTML-compliant site.
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Well. I might end up using this other custom method of showing backlinks. I have to examine what it does and how it's different from the Blogger system. We'll see.
I used perl to parse the text, so I end up with real HTML in the document... I've been trying to elliminate the JavaScript data parsing in my blog all together...
Yeah, I've realized that's not a bug; I can't run server-side scripts, so perl's not an option for me.
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