Migrating thread to mobile-l.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66930 and the blocking tasks there for the previous conversation on Twitter cards.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Indeed, you're right:

<head>
  ... 
 
  <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
  <meta name="twitter:site" content="@NSHipster">
  <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@mattt">
  
  ...

Seems a bit inefficient to denormalize page content into the <meta> tags:

<meta name="description" content="Reflection in Swift is a limited affair, providing read-only access to a subset of type metadata. While far from the rich array of run-time hackery familiar to seasoned Objective-C developers, Swift's tools enable the immediate feedback and sense of exploration offered by Xcode Playgrounds. This week, we'll reflect on reflection in Swift, its mirror types, and `MirrorType`, the protocol that binds them together.">

and

<meta name="twitter:description" content="Reflection in Swift is a limited affair, providing read-only access to a subset of type metadata. While far from the rich array of run-time hackery familiar to seasoned Objective-C developers, Swift's tools enable the immediate feedback and sense of exploration offered by Xcode Playgrounds. This week, we'll reflect on reflection in Swift, its mirror types, and `MirrorType`, the protocol that binds them together."> 

However, does seem like more validation for the annotated HTML approach.
 

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
http://nshipster.com/mirrortype/ seems to be using Twitter cards. To a point in the brainstorming Etherpad and Corey's message I think it was yesterday, support for de facto meta data and deep linking would be rad (sounds like a good opportunity to have a consistent service for images, dare I say).

-Adam

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yay alliteration!  Check out this informative use of HTML extraction in the field:

Inline image 1

Not sure what "conventions" there are when structuring HTML to make it "scraper friendly," but Twitter seems to be grabbing & restyling the h1 & p tags.