#social 2015-06-21

2015-06-21 UTC
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ben_thatmustbeme
rhiaro: melvster1: the FIRST h-* entry is what is primary topic of a page. Thats why some of us have started to put h-card / h-entry / h-feed on the body tag, so there can be only one top level h-*
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melvster1
ben_thatmustbeme: cool, is the first entry linkable too, ie does it hava a URI also eg with an about="#main" type anchor?
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melvster1
about="#this" probably better
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melvster1
i think that's the only tag needed to converge indieweb and solid ...
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ben_thatmustbeme
melvster1: it is linkable in that the url of the page you are on is the link already (if it has a u-url then that's what should be used instead). After the first h-* is not linkable.
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ben_thatmustbeme
Oh by first entry you mean first h-entry? Only if it's the first top level, otherwise no
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melvster1
ben_thatmustbeme: whats a u-url?
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rhiaro
melvster1: u-url is a microformats2 property for the permalink of a h-entry (post)
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rhiaro
or the permalink of whatever it's nested in
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melvster1
rhiaro: oh great, so it could be a # uri too?
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melvster1
perfect
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melvster1
so then indieweb and solid are a lot closer to convergence than I thought
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melvster1
we just need to respect u-urls
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rhiaro
There's no reason anything on the page isn't linkable with a # uri, not just the top level thing, but most people in indieweb are going to ignore the #
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rhiaro
(maybe)
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rhiaro
hence I have a h-feed as my top level h-* on rhiaro.co.uk and an h-card at rhiaro.co.uk/#amy
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melvster1
great
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rhiaro
Though I'm not sure if parsers are inferring the h-card insdie the h-feed is the author of all the h-entries also in the h-feed at the moment because nobody else I know of does it that way around, but I think that's something that can be fixed with parsers
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rhiaro
(I haven't checked all the parsers)
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melvster1
rhiaro: but different uris mean different things, if you're going to ignore part of the uri when people are using it, then stuff can break ... it's ok for a silo, but not ok for creating a standard ...
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rhiaro
I'm just describing the current state of things
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melvster1
sure i get it ...
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melvster1
but with u-url i see a path to convergence ...
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melvster1
*maybe*
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melvster1
for those that want convergence that is ...
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rhiaro
So far nobody has needed to worry about # uris meaning anything different, or indeed needing to differentiate a person from their website
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rhiaro
in that particular community
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melvster1
sure, it's only when you start interoperating with other communities do these things become more important
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melvster1
if we can tell people "this is how you can change the parsers to make communities interoperate" .. it gives the options of creating a federation or creating organic growth
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melvster1
then people can decide what they want
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melvster1
the u-url seems a good step in that direction?
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rhiaro
indieweb is very permalinks for everything, which is nicely LD friendly, yes
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melvster1
so is solid, perhaps even moreso than indieweb ... so as long as we can exchange permalinks there's a good basis for collaboration
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melvster1
i think the main difference between SoLiD and indieweb is that we can have more than one permalink per web page and often do
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melvster1
i cant say im optimistic about convergence, but at least if we can document *how* to do it, some people might want to try it in the future
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rhiaro
It's not like people don't use fragments
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melvster1
great
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rhiaro
I think the idea of URIs as idenfiers rather than locators is just less strong
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rhiaro
Also if you haven't seen http://indiewebcamp.com/fragmention you might be interested
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melvster1
cool!
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melvster1
# seems to be quite an overloaded character
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melvster1
like * in C
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rhiaro
Being immersed in linked data stuff, it's easy to forget that most web devs don't see URIs as identifiers in quite the same way
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rhiaro
That's how I've felt, anyway
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melvster1
no, i get it ... i was the same when i discovered linked data
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melvster1
i didnt see any use cases fo rit
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melvster1
s/fo rit/for it
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melvster1
in fact i felt quite strongly NOT to use frag ids as they were too complex
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melvster1
but over time ive learnt the advantages
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melvster1
rhiaro: thing is, it's a very easy change to the markup of indieweb since u-url is there ... people can choose
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melvster1
a lot will come down to incentives ... say I want to use indieauth I need to add a line of code to my profile, but that's worth it ... then say if an indieweb user wants to use a solid app, they may need to add a line to their profile ... etc.
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rhiaro
I'm very sleepy so I might not be following everything, but each post in a feed has it's own URI (non #) in the u-url, so they wouldn't need another... I can see the case for h-cards (people URIs) but I'm not sure anything else
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melvster1
thats fine
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melvster1
posts tend to be http documents already
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melvster1
rhiaro++
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Loqi
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rhiaro
most people use their base URI as an identifier for themself, but those who don't would probably be inclined to use a path rather than a #
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rhiaro
like an /about page
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melvster1
seems more complex than adding a u-url
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rhiaro
what do you mean?
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melvster1
creating a new page seems more complex than adding an attribute to an h-card
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rhiaro
I mean people who have an /about page anyway
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rhiaro
I think adactio has both (a h-card on homepage and an /about page)
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melvster1
ah ok
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rhiaro
But for most people, their homepage is them
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melvster1
well i guess each choice has trade offs