#microformats 2021-04-02

2021-04-02 UTC
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btrem I just learned that Firefox does not parse the author correctly in reader mode, causing other names to show up in articles that I wrote.
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btrem It seems to find the first element with "author" in an attribute -- any attribute, afaict -- and uses the content of that element for the byline.
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btrem It breaks when the post is "in-reply-to" and I include the author of the replied-to piece in a nested h-cite.
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btrem What's worse is that it gets it wrong when the post is *not* in-reply-to, that is, when there's no other author elements, and it shouldn't get confused. On those pages, where the only p-author element is my h-card in the footer, it shows no author. Shame.
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GWG Firefox parses things?
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btrem haha
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btrem Well, it does find author text. Just not the right one.
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btrem Safari doesn't show author on my pages. Presumably the same problem: the author is in the footer of the page. Which is slightly annoying, since the footer is a child of the body, and the body is an h-entry. Another words, I'm doing it right -- I think -- but the browsers are not.
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btrem Yep, I just copied the address element from my footer up near the top of the page, after the first article. And FF reader view shows the byline. So it doesn't like the author to be the footer.
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jacky I think that's from https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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jacky might be ideal to place a bug report there about this!
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Loqi [mozilla] readability: A standalone version of the readability lib
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[tantek] I feel like I've filed a related bug in Bugzilla on this, specifically asking for h-entry support
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[tantek] address alone is too ambiguous in not great ways
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[tantek] btrem, jacky, feel free to comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923806
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[tantek] btrem, would h-entry support solving your authorship problem?
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btrem me/shrugs
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btrem The pages in question do use h-entry, with p-author in the footer address element.
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jacky oof
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jacky is it still being tracked here?
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jacky no activity for 5 years :eyes:
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btrem I did an additional test. I put an author element in the body, but outside the footer and outside the main element, as a direct child of body (and between the main and footer elements). Again, FF picked up the author byline. So it's just in the footer that it fails.
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[tantek] jacky, I might have filed the bug too soon 😂
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@vbarne Microformats are a set of defined HTML classes that allow software to process the information reliably by having set classes refer to a specific type of data rather than being arbitrary (i.e., contact information, geographic coordinates, events, blog posts, products, recipes). (twitter.com/_/status/1378112172170039299)
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