#dev 2018-11-07

2018-11-07 UTC
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[jgmac1106] https://jgregorymcverry.com/
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Loqi [Charlie Owen] Dear Developer, The Web Isn't About You
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[jgmac1106] why is this happening? Do I need to make my h-card representative because the bookmarks on the page have an h-card?
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[jgmac1106] nvm, think it;s just here the cited author h-card gets picked up...if I remember correctly granary? favors the h-cite
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gRegorLove carrying over some indiebookclub talk here from #microformats
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gRegorLove Grant has a request in for IBC to allow editing posts, so that's on my radar.
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gRegorLove In #microformats we were discussing possibly switching `p-read-status` with `p-category`
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gRegorLove If I do that, I think edit posts would check both the p-read-status and the p-category to select the "status" in the drop-down...
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GWG I am still confused
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gRegorLove So if you edited on IBC, changing from to-read to reading, the mp request would send the new category, not the old one.
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gRegorLove [eddie], [jgmac1106] Does that make sense?^
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GWG But I am jetlagged
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gRegorLove Personally I don't think I plan to use edits in IBC much. I like having separate posts for when I added to-read, started reading, finished reading.
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[jgmac1106] yeah part of the reason I was thinking them as a webmention to the original post
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gRegorLove I've experimented with that for reading progress, each one in reply to the "started reading" post.
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gRegorLove Not sure about it in the mp client, though.
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[jgmac1106] but in IWBC could you theoretically have a dropdown menu that could trigger a micropub post for read-to reading and finished that would in a reply-to the original post?
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[eddie] gRegorLove ohhh interesting. Yeah I would probably do separate posts, I don’t think I would ever edit
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[eddie] But makes sense for people that want to do that
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gRegorLove [eddie], out of curiosity, are you doing anything with read-status on your site internally, to organize posts?
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[eddie] Not yet. Without a database cache, I couldn’t do anything. But now that I have a database cache set up this week, I’ll be able to start doing that
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gRegorLove One reason I'm liking the thought of changing to category is it solves the problem of whether to use the x- prefix in the mp requests :)
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[eddie] Yeah, I think it’s a pretty elegant solution
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[eddie] I’ll be able to watch for the special “categories” and when going from oldest to newest, update the database cache with the most recent book status
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gRegorLove Ok, just checking. I don't want to make life difficult, heh. There's still the read-of so people can identify read posts though
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[eddie] So that’ll allow me to do separate posts but in the database I’ll be able to query all posts with “to-read@s
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[eddie] Yeah, I think that’s the key
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[eddie] Having to-read
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[eddie] Oops
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[eddie] Haha read-of is the key
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[eddie] For Post Type Discovery
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gRegorLove [jgmac1106], possibly. I'll think about it some more. I want it to be a clear UX and not surprise anyone. Maybe a setting.
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@tomcritchlowBOT V curious about webmentions and the insanity of…. (twitter.com/_/status/1060064760316731394)
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@malcolmblaney testing http://brid.gy delete #indieweb (twitter.com/_/status/1060067042399797253)
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[grantcodes] !tell gRegorLove I've not used IBC extensively yet myself, but the way I would imagine updates working would be practically the same as a new post, but if the user selects they have finished or got to page you could show an extra box to paste a post url to update.
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[grantcodes] !ell gRegorLove also seems I can't login anymore. The auth redirect has a double slash in it which I'm sure doesn't help
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[grantcodes] oops
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[grantcodes] !tell gRegorLove also seems I can't login anymore. The auth redirect has a double slash in it which I'm sure doesn't help
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[jgmac1106] @swentel how do apps access the finerprint reader on Androi...be really cool if I could login with a fingerprint
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swentel [jgmac1106], well it's a permission that can be asked by the app and then implementing some methods to do the verification
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swentel it's relatively simple
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[jgmac1106] ...but with indielogin it would be my website that would have to access the fingerprint reader correct?
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[Rose] Aaron has a post somewhere about using his phone to log into his website
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sknebel yes, his IndieAuth endpoint can use some authenticator app on his phone as a second factor
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sknebel a client app could protect a token it already obtained behind a fingerprint check, but can't play that role for the actual login to the IndieAuth server
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sknebel hm, another interesting point for private (or worse, partially-private (do we have a good word for this?)) feeds is WebSub. I think it supports authentication in principle?
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[eddie] sknebel: partially-private, could be referred to either as protected or audience based
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aaronpk sknebel: PubSubHubbub has historically been viewed as being unable to support authenticated fetching, which is why we keep seeing alternative methods of authenticated delivery pop up
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aaronpk I think some of that is due to the assumption of a hub doing the "fan-out" thing where it fetches a feed once and delivers the same content to all its subscribers
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sknebel yeah, for "mixed" resources it's kind of iffy
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aaronpk if we think of a feed not just as a URL but as a URL plus some authentication, then I think the rest of the WebSub model still falls into place nicely
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sknebel yeah. it's a bit tricky when and how to authenticate, it's not as obvious as I thought it'd be at first
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sknebel I think a better first step would be to write down what we have in a more formal shape, with request examples and such
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aaronpk yep and maybe get another implementation or two :)
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aaronpk since that private webmention spec is pretty well documented and has a couple implementations but nobody else seems very excited about it
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sknebel I can turn my code in a test server
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sknebel so everyone can log in and see a "private post" with their log in URL
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sknebel so people making the fetch side can see something immediatly
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aaronpk that sounds like a good start
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sknebel Zegnat had some problem with the indieweb client php thing that for some reason didn't like my 401 pages, but worked for him locally...
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aaronpk I still need to review everything again and see what it'll take to add it to my site
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aaronpk since I already support private posts addressed to specific people
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aaronpk (not feed views, just permalinks)
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sknebel I could reuse a bunch of stuff from the private webmentions for that kind of logic
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aaronpk yeah that's my thinking too
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sknebel just needed a different way of getting tokens
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sknebel started tracking questions that come up on the nürnberg page too. feel like some stuff was talked about, but not with everyone and not documented
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sknebel ... and just thought of another one...
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swentel ok going to start testing the new built-in webmention endpoint in the drupal module
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swentel *fingers crossed*
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swentel aaronpk, added some classes which extend on XRay for now to handle u-follow ;)
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aaronpk nice yeah I should do that
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swentel aaronpk, I've added a pull request that should do it
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aaronpk cool I will add that to my list :)
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swentel might need to add tests, haven't checked
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swentel there's one open for aperture too, but I don't really need it anymore hehe :)
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swentel or was it watchtower, can't remember
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swentel ah watchtower yes
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aaronpk I have too many projects lol
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aaronpk as soon as I finish a round of updates/bugfixes to one, a different project has become overdue for attention
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swentel hehe, I know the feeling
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swentel I've also disabled all e-mail notifications for repo's everywhere, less stress :)
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aaronpk if I had a good way to look at issues across all my repos I would do that too
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aaronpk but github doesn't really provide that view
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swentel hmm I do use /issues for that
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swentel but I have less repos, so that's why it still works for me I guess
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aaronpk is there a magic search term that will show all open issues across all my repos? the default view includes author:aaronpk which is not what I want
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sknebel https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aaaronpk&type=Issues ?
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[Rose] I think the app CodeHub on iOS can do that
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aaronpk I want to keep up on some repos in the indieweb org too
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[Rose] Ah, yes. I was wondering what the next step is for the checkin format. Only I should ask Tantek, it's his repo 😛
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aaronpk this is close https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+archived%3Afalse+org%3Aaaronpk+org%3Aindieweb+org%3Amicroformats
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[Rose] (Link for context: https://github.com/tantek/post-type-discovery/issues/40)
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Loqi [RosemaryOrchard] #40 Check ins as a specific property
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aaronpk I already use the "watching" feature to decide which ones to get emails about, why can't that setting also apply to a view on the web? that's what I really want
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sknebel there's also this https://octobox.io/, but it's based on notifications you got, not sure if it works quite right
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aaronpk oh yeah and https://github.com/notifications is also close but again not a very actionable view
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aaronpk I want a view like https://github.com/issues but that only includes repos in https://github.com/watching
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swentel hmm advanced search seems to handle that
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swentel https://github.com/search?l=&q=repo%3Aaaronpk%2FWatchtower+repo%3Aaaronpk%2FAperture&type=Issues
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swentel but the view is annoying
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sknebel is digging through UMA again
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leg 1033040575_pmDk2-
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snarfed i've always thought so too
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jalcine lolol
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jalcine how do y'all handle thumbnailing on sites? I'm going to be making extensive use of them for performance concerns but I don't _think_ it should be a big idea mf2 parsing wise
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jalcine it'd be just a lot of the same image in different resolutions
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KartikPrabhu jalcine: I use srcset on <img> but mf2 parsers will pick up only the src attribute
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jalcine ah okay
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sknebel yeah, srcset parsing has been proposed but since there has been no feedback at all on what output people would like I haven't followed it further
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aaronpk authorship question... I continue to miss out on any authorship information in adactio's posts from his feeds. In his feed pages, there is no author property on the individual h-entrys. His pages are a series of h-entrys with one h-card at the end. Should I add a rule to use that h-card as the author of every h-entry? The rule would be basically if the page consists of a bunch of h-entrys followed by
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aaronpk one h-card, and the h-entrys don't have a URL, use the h-card as the author of each.
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swentel that makes sense to me
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sknebel he's got a rel author too
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sknebel although it doesn't point to the home page
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aaronpk hm yeah that is tricky, especially since the url of the h-card on https://adactio.com/about/myself is https://adactio.com/
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Loqi Jeremy Keith
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aaronpk I suppose rel=author for a feed page could make some sense to use
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aaronpk really need a new page to document the feed authorship algorithm
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gRegorLove Is it a representative h-card?
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Loqi gRegorLove: [grantcodes] left you a message 8 hours, 18 minutes ago: I've not used IBC extensively yet myself, but the way I would imagine updates working would be practically the same as a new post, but if the user selects they have finished or got to page you could show an extra box to paste a post url to update.
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Loqi gRegorLove: [grantcodes] left you a message 8 hours, 17 minutes ago: also seems I can't login anymore. The auth redirect has a double slash in it which I'm sure doesn't help
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aaronpk what is representative h-card?
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Loqi The representative h-card for a page is an h-card on that page that represents that page, if any, as not all pages are about a person or organization, a page might not have a representative h-card https://indieweb.org/representative_h-card
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aaronpk sounds like no
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aaronpk that is a terribly worded sentence tho lol
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gRegorLove haha
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sknebel that's another thing that could take another look... since indiewebify.me promotes it so much people spend time on it, and I'm not even sure the definition is clear or it's actually consumed
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aaronpk it is definitely consumed
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sebsel what is authorship?
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aaronpk but the authorship algorithm is probably used more, and used before the representative h-card would be used
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Loqi authorship is how to determine who the author(s) of a post are https://indieweb.org/authorship
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gRegorLove indiewebify.me has a bug validating rep. h-card btw
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sknebel aaronpk: great, then please add examples to the section I just added :D
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gRegorLove aaronpk, what's the adactio feed URL in question?
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aaronpk any
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aaronpk e.g. https://adactio.com/ or https://adactio.com/links
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Loqi Jeremy Keith
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gRegorLove Patched indiewebify.me finds a rep. h-card: http://iwm.gregoreatworld.com/validate-h-card/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fadactio.com%2Farticles%2F
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gRegorLove (disregard php notices, heh)
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gRegorLove The h-card there has a u-url that matches a rel-me on the same page, so representative
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sknebel https://adactio.com/about/myself/, which is the rel=me also validates
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Loqi Jeremy Keith
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gRegorLove the bug actually isn't in indiewebify.me but Barnaby's mf2 cleaner. I have a PR: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-mf-cleaner/pull/6
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Loqi [gRegorLove] #6 Update the getRepresentativeHCard() method
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sknebel so if authorship would do an analog to step 6 for feed pages, it'd find it
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aaronpk so which is the better option for adactio's site? use the rel=author value, fetch that, and use the representative h-card on that? or look for the h-entry + h-card pattern?
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sknebel (well, if it accepts a page full of entries as a feed)
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aaronpk ah yeah it is kind of analogous to step 6
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gRegorLove er, that PR may not be related after all. I'll have to look at the code closer.
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gRegorLove It sounds like rep. h-card algorithm is easier in this instance, no extra fetch
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aaronpk no that is mixing the two options
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aaronpk option 1: fetch rel=author and use representative h-card to decide whether to use that page as the author on all the h-entrys
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aaronpk option 2: no additional fetch needed, just use the single h-card that's at the bottom of the page
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sknebel option 3: option two, but only if it is a representative h-card
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aaronpk I would feel better about option 2 if the rel=author value matched the url of that trailing h-card
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gRegorLove Yeah, option 3 is what I'm proposing
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aaronpk I thought representative h-card applies only to a page that is about a person
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aaronpk which means applying it to a feed page doesn't make sense
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aaronpk that was my understanding given that (poor) definition on the page
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sebsel or organisation*
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sknebel mine too, but in practice people put h-cards meeting those criteria all over the shop
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aaronpk "an h-card on that page that represents that page"
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aaronpk but an h-card on a feed page doesn't *represent* the page, it is the author of the entries on the page
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sknebel yeah, true, so it's not a good basis
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KartikPrabhu right. I don't think representative h-card is supposed to decide the "author" for h-feeds
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sebsel yeah, on a feed the h-feed would *represent* the page.
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sknebel true, at least the rel=me thing case shouldn't happen on random pages
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gRegorLove I guess I'm proposing option 4: follow /authorship algorithm; if not found, follow rep. h-card.
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sknebel homepages are a bit of a special case which often are both a feed and representing a person
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gRegorLove Fitting rel-author in there somewhere is probably worth exploring
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aaronpk gRegorLove: I just don't think it's a good idea to say you should use the representative h-card algorithm on something that is not intended to represent a person or org
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aaronpk probably a few of the steps in the representative h-card algorithm would be good to include in the feed authorship algorithm, but they are different things
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gRegorLove hm, maybe
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gRegorLove I think /authorship was originally based on rep. h-card
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gRegorLove Doesn't authorship algorithm 7.3 work with https://adactio.com/about/myself/? There's one h-card there with url = rel-me
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Loqi Jeremy Keith
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gRegorLove maybe not based on 6 "if there is no author-page and the h-entry's page is a permalink page" since this is a feed page. hm
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gRegorLove could add a step 4.1 "otherwise if the feed page has a rel-author, use that"
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gRegorLove I think that would definitely take you through step 7 then and find the h-card
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aaronpk well the real problem is currently there is nothing documented for feed authorship
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aaronpk so we don't really have anything to add text to right now
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aaronpk i've just been winging it for Aperture right now, loosely based off of permalink authorship
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gRegorLove Sure, but we have at least some mention of feeds in /authorship
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aaronpk oh you're right, the authorship algorithm is the right place for this, since I *am* talking about finding the author of a post. it's just that the post isn't on a post permalink page, it's within a feed.
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sknebel I mean, it makes sense to have a feed authorship algorithm, and reference that. "if the post is in a feed for which an author can be discovered, assume this"
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sknebel make a new section or a new page
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aaronpk just reread that in the context of adactio.com and I get to step 8 and do not find an author
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gRegorLove Try it with my proposed 4.1
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aaronpk that could work, but then we need a way to know if the page is a feed page
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gRegorLove "has a parent h-feed"
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aaronpk which has been another challenge
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aaronpk but adactio.com does not
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gRegorLove ohh
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gRegorLove oops :)
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sebsel so there would be something like: are there multiple h-entry:s at the top level? -> treat it as implicit h-feed; are there multiple h-entry:s and one h-card -> treat it as implicit h-feed with the h-card as author of the feed
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sebsel and then in the discovery, at some point check if the feed has an author?
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aaronpk something like that, which is kind of why I was thinking this should be written differently than the permalink authorship discovery
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sebsel could still be on the same page tho.
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gRegorLove Think we'll need some url/uid/rel-me checks with "multiple h-entry:s and one h-card -> treat it as implicit h-feed with the h-card as author" e.g. a stream of h-entrys and only h-card is a link in one of the h-entrys to someone else.
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[schmarty] hi
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gRegorLove https://indieweb.org/authorship#feed_authorship :)
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gRegorLove o/ [schmarty]
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snarfed re srcset, https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/7 , https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/592
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Loqi [tantek] #7 Should u-* parsing special case img srcset?
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sknebel snarfed: exactly. wish for an output format and you'll have a PR within a week, but I don't want to invent an output format I don't consume
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sknebel (my proposed "just a string" doesn't feel right, but I'm not sure what easy to consume as a more complex, parsed out format)
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sknebel (dict of "size rule":"url"?)
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sknebel (list of pairs or ordereddict, sorted by size?)
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sebsel Hm, working on Leesmap, hooking up Monocle as frontend, but I can't view certain channels because they are not in the channel list. :P
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sebsel It makes sense. Should we be explicit that all channels need to be in the channel-list?
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sebsel Meh, this is a weird edge case anyway, where I happen to know the identifier of a channel that is not in the list
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swentel and why is it not in the list ?
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sebsel because I have not added them.
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sebsel but also, because it's a channel that is created as an extra channel, on the fly
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sebsel (specificly: the 'liked' channel, which contains all the posts that are liked by posts in your feed)
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sebsel I should just add those to the list.
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swentel oh like that
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swentel interesting case
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Loqi agreed.
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sebsel no the longer I think of it, the more I think I'm just wrong. It would be nice if monocle would accept more channel identifiers, but it's totally fine it doesn't.
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swentel yeah, depending on the id, you decide on the server which posts it shows
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swentel it kind of that that on the fly too with notifications
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swentel hmm, s/that that/do that
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sebsel Oh, this is so satisfying... booting up one app (in this case Monocle) and finding out it more or less works with the code you just wrote (in this case Leesmap)
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jalcine regarding srcset and the like
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sebsel only had an issue with aaronpk's use of the short <?-syntax in php, but that was only related to Monocle, not to Leesmap's Microsub :P
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jalcine I'm going to opt to <picture> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#the-picture-element
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jalcine it doesn't change the case with mf2 parsing
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jalcine but it looks like that'd be a bit simpler to handle parsing (b/c you gotta do some sizes parsing with srcset and the sizes keyword)
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KartikPrabhu jalcine: the picture element also supports srcset and sizes in the <source>
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KartikPrabhu the <picture> by it self is just a wrapper element essentially
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jalcine right but I could have it work with the <img> as a "base" and not crowd the img tag
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jalcine (I'm thinking about HTML generation as well to be frank)
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KartikPrabhu sure by mf2 parsers don't really care if the <img> element is "crowded"
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jalcine hmm
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KartikPrabhu so yeah you should go for what makes sense as the markup for your site and not worry too much about mf2
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KartikPrabhu in fact I use <picture> with <img> with srcset and sometimes <source> if I am using svg
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KartikPrabhu if you put say "u-photo" on an <img> then mf parsers will directly pick up the src attribute which work fine for now
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