Dev-Picayune

After looking into doing TrackBack support, I decided to also look into providing comment capability. However, after just a short amount of research, I have realized that Blogger won’t support comments unless you have post pages turned on. In Blogger.com’s world that means that you get a separate HTML page for each post. Since I don’t use that “feature” and instead generate my post pages dynamically with XSL from an XML file, it would be a total waste of time and space to have a duplicate of what I already have. Duplicates that I am afraid would never be used since the blogger template does allow putting the comments in the main generation. But they are not generated unless you have post pages turned on. There are some third-party solutions I’ll look into, but I am not so sure I want to bother with that. It’s bad enough being dependent on one third-party to store my blog (BTW, many blogger definazis would say that I don’t have a blog at all since I don’t support comments).