sharelink formats

Part of the Sharelink effort.

Malte Ubl ‏@cramforce Jan 19

• specifically we’d like to propose <link rel=share> (or similar name) to provide preference of shared URL for a given page.

Per the microformats process this page is here to document previous formats for pages publishing share links for themselves.

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examples

• rel-canonical
  • Jeremy Keith ‏@adactio
    @cramforce Is this not already covered by rel="canonical"?
  • Malte Ubl ‏@cramforce
    @adactio we’d fallback to that, but people want to override it for some legit and less legit reasons.
    people sometimes use canonical to point to an entirely different publication that was the original source of the content.
    and others want to do share tracking with #.1234 style URLs (see e.g. @Medium URLs).
  • Kevin Marks ‏@kevinmarks
    @cramforce @adactio @Medium or google inspired &utm_source things
  • Ricky Mondello‏ @rmondello
    Safari on iOS 11 will share the canonical link for a page, which can improve the experience of sharing a "mobile" website.
  • bookmarklets for switching to or copying canonical links

• u-repost-of
  • Kevin Marks ‏@kevinmarks
    @cramforce @adactio so the page has a link to the version it wants shared. Is it like u-repost-of https://indieweb.org/repost or rel=bookmark?

• rel-bookmark
  • Kevin Marks ‏@kevinmarks
    @cramforce @adactio so the page has a link to the version it wants shared. Is it like u-repost-of https://indieweb.org/repost or rel=bookmark?
    rel-bookmark is already in the html5 spec, and in lots of CMSs, including WordPress …
  • Malte Ubl ‏@cramforce
    @kevinmarks @adactio I think bookmark comes pretty close. Not quite the same, but close.

• rel-shortlink
  • https://twitter.com/voxpelli/status/822378518902239233 [Pelle Wessman ‏@voxpelli]
    @cramforce @kevinmarks @adactio There's also rel-shortlink which is often used for sharing + is widely supported

• rel=self
  • the Atom Link element defines rel="self" as

 The value "self" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href
 attribute identifies a resource equivalent to the containing
 element.

see also

• sharelink-examples