Re: Suggestions for a "View on fediverse" button in a HTML page

On 22/04/24 16:10, Ryan Barrett wrote:
> Fun! Sounds like a more sophisticated, fediverse-aware version of 
> rel=syndication <https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-syndication> / 
> u-syndication <https://indieweb.org/u-syndication> / rel=alternate 
> links. (Most fediverse servers already support a related UX flow: if 
> your blog post includes a rel=alternate link to a fediverse post 
> <https://fed.brid.gy/docs#searchable>, you can search for your blog 
> post's URL in a fediverse server and it will return the native 
> fediverse post.)
>
> The classic problem, as you mention in #2, is that due to browser 
> same-origin policy and cookie isolation, afaik there's no way for a 
> given web page to determine where you're currently logged into a 
> fediverse account. That also applies to #1, right? If someone's logged 
> into Mastodon somewhere, and they click this button on your blog, you 
> still won't know where their Mastodon server is.
May be acceptable restricting to 1) , thus forcing the user to log in 
into its server also in the case she is already logged in.
>
> This is an age-old UX problem in the fediverse. Fediverse servers 
> themselves generally all do #2. If you open a post on a server you're 
> not logged into, and you click the like or reply or post button, it 
> won't know where to send you. It has to ask you for your server.
>
> (Browser extensions and other native tools can solve this better, of 
> course! But those are whole other cans of worms.)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 4:01 AM Cristiano Longo 
> <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi all, I developed a small blogging platform which, among blogging
>     features, publish posts on the fediverse as Notes. I wonder add a
>     "View
>     on fediverse" button in the post page. However, the user which press
>     this button should be able to add coments, like and share the Note
>     object. Let me enumerate two possible use cases:
>
>     1) the user is logged in (via web interface) to her mastodon
>     account on
>     some server. In this case the "View on the fadiverse" button open the
>     server web page showing the Note object, but with the user already
>     logged in;
>
>     2) the user is not logged in to any activity pub server, but her
>     holds
>     an account on some such a server which provides a web interface.
>     In this
>     case, the user should be asked for server IRI and her account
>     credentials. If authentication succeeds, the rest works as in 1).
>
>     Sorry for the confused request, any suggesiton is welcome.
>
>     CL
>
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