2017/Austin/webmention
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Webmentions was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2017.
- Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/webmention
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V70L0vqDss
IndieWebCamp Austin 2017
Session: Webmentions
When: 2017-12-09 14:00 CST
Participants
Notes
Webmentions are posts that show up on other people’s sites, often comments
webmention.rocks is good for debugging The bare minimum for a webmetnion is a link
- Start with a blank webpage
- Link to the post you’re replying to.
- Discover, find their webmention endpoint. Link tag with a rel="webmention" in their head or a link header. Use curl for testing
- Add microformats to the post
- Can link an h-entry to another url in order to have author info available, but hidden from view, requires x-ray currently
- Data element is a good way to hide h-card elements if not wanted to be visible. Better than using display: none or empty links
- Need more tools to simplify this for users
- Webmention is an evolution of pingback
- More testing required to deal with potential spam
Photos
Photo by 
Tantek Çelik