I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-handles, hashtags(#), and footnotes(^).
Much of it is based on what I’ve seen work (or implemented) on sites and software, and some of it is based on logically extending how people are using text punctuation across various services.
It may be time for me to write-up an auto-link specification based on the algorithms I’ve come up with, implemented, and am using live on my site. All the algorithms work fully offline (none of them require querying a site for more info, whether well-known or otherwise), so they can be used in offline-first authoring/writing clients.
I have identified three logical chunks of auto-linking functionality, each of which has different constraints and potential needs for local to the linking context information (like hashtags need a default tagspace). Each would be a good section for a new specification. Each is used by this very post.
* URLs, @-s, and @-@-s
* # hashtags
* ^ footnotes
#IndieWeb #autoLink #hashtag #hashtags #footnote #footnotes
Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2024/070/t1/updated-auto-linking-mention-use-cases
* https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
* https://tantek.com/2023/043/t1/footnotes-unicode-links
* https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo
References:
¹ https://indieweb.org/autolink
² https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js
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so excited to be on xoxo.zone, signing up at #indieweb camp right after xoxo. I am also really sad xoxo is over
#indieweb @avibagler@xoxo.zone: I have updated my portfolio on avibagler.com to include newer projects, and I signed up for mastodon too
#indieweb @artlung: I am still working on my comicon blogpost from a month ago, but I wanted to blog about the themes of xoxo, where Erin Kissane subdivided awesome things we made on the web or horrible things that happened to us on the web. I wrote about the hope we have from the speakers at XOXO https://artlung.com/blog/2024/08/25/post-xoxo-ramble/
#indieweb Amy: I removed twitter from my website
#indieweb @tantek.com: If someone has written down how to do it thta cna help implement - I have a blogpost about this on my site so comment on that. https://tantek.com/2024/238/t3/indiewebcamp-auto-linking
#indieweb @tantek.com: I have 3 categories of linking urls, @ domains and @-@ handles, videos like youtube etc, and one that I have come up for my site is footnotes
#indieweb @tantek.com: I had a chat with Kevin about the larger topic of autolinking - I've done enough coding on this to now write up a specification for this
#indieweb @snarfed.org: If I want to reply I have the same thing with a reply as part of the http shortcuts app.I'll post a link to more details in the indieweb chat
#indieweb @snarfed.org: then bridgy.fed federates it back out to the mastodon post by Nelson Minar. I use http shortcuts with a share target that pulls fields out of the {share_target} to fill in my micropub endpoint
#indieweb @snarfed.org: If we look at threads - there is one tap to like a post - so lets try Newsblur . here's a post I want to like, so here's a share action that looks like a heart and it shares the like to my site - you can't see it but it does show up in my site.