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\nJust noticed that Stephen Downes emailed me about his implementation of a Javascript-based referrer linkback system. I'd been planning to get around to making one inspired from our blogchat, but he's got it first. Cool. :) Looks like Jon's picked up on it, too. \n

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\nJon muses:

I haven't yet looked into what it will take to make the reporting item- rather than page-specific. It's doable, I'm sure. Thanks, Stephen! A ?JavaScript-oriented solution like this will appeal to a lot of Radio users.
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\nThe biggest issue I see for Radio, obviously, is that the style there is to have many blog entries on one page for the day. Permalinks are anchors within those pages. However, I haven't seen browsers reporting the post-anchor-hash info for referrals. At first though, one would need to have Radio spew blog entries into individual files to make this JS linkback scheme work at per-entry granularity. Otherwise, I'd love to see this work for Radio. I'd also love to see it woven with community server services.\n

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\nA few brief musings on the referrers script itself:\n

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\r\nJust noticed that Stephen Downes emailed me about his implementation of a Javascript-based referrer linkback system. I'd been planning to get around to making one inspired from our blogchat, but he's got it first. Cool. :) Looks like Jon's picked up on it, too. \r\n

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\r\nJon muses:

I haven't yet looked into what it will take to make the reporting item- rather than page-specific. It's doable, I'm sure. Thanks, Stephen! A ?JavaScript-oriented solution like this will appeal to a lot of Radio users.
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\r\nThe biggest issue I see for Radio, obviously, is that the style there is to have many blog entries on one page for the day. Permalinks are anchors within those pages. However, I haven't seen browsers reporting the post-anchor-hash info for referrals. At first though, one would need to have Radio spew blog entries into individual files to make this JS linkback scheme work at per-entry granularity. Otherwise, I'd love to see this work for Radio. I'd also love to see it woven with community server services.\r\n

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\r\nA few brief musings on the referrers script itself:\r\n

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\r\n\r\n\r\nshortname=oooaeo\r\n", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2002", "path": "2002/05/13/oooaeo", "summary": "Just noticed that Stephen Downes emailed me about his implementation of a Javascript-based referrer linkback system. I'd been planning to get around to making one inspired from our blogchat, but he's got it first. Cool. :) Looks like Jon's picked up on it, too. \n\n\n\n\n\nJon muses:I haven't yet looked into what it will take to make the reporting item- rather than page-specific. It's doable, I'm sure. Thanks, Stephen! A ?JavaScript-oriented solution like this will appeal to a lot of Radio users.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe biggest issue I see for Radio, obviously, is that the style there is to have many blog entries on one page for the day. Permalinks are anchors within those pages. However, I haven't seen browsers reporting the post-anchor-hash info for referrals. At first though, one would need to have Radio spew blog entries into individual files to make this JS linkback scheme work at per-entry granularity. Otherwise, I'd love to see this work for Radio. I'd also love to see it woven with community server services.\n\n\n\n\n\nA few brief musings on the referrers script itself:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHmm, haven't seen cgi-lib.pl used since my Perl 4 and pre-CGI.pm days. I'd forgotten how serviceable the thing still is.\n\n\n\n\n\nI like get_page_title(). It's a start on what I was musing about over here.\n\n\n\n\n\nI want to steal this, maybe transliterate it into PHP (since my webhost frowns on my CGIs now), and hook it up to a MySQL database. Stephen doesn't want to host the world's referers, but I wonder how mad my host will get if I open mine up. :) Would make for some neat data to draw maps with, but probably shouldn't do things to make myself an even more annoying band practicing neighbor.", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2002/05/13/oooadi", "prevPostTitle": "I can do quickies as well as the next blog", "nextPostPath": "2002/05/13/oooaea", "nextPostTitle": "Linksback to the danger zone" }