[Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

[Brion Vibber]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <
psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:

> > >> However, consider the mobile interface. Copy-and-pasting a URL is
> > >> considerably more difficult there. How would you work around that?
> >
> > > Having a "copy this page address" button maybe? And you may paste it in
> > > whatever "social media" you like, as an email for example. ;)
> >
> >
> > This is a difficult and annoying action on a phone.
>
> By just saying "a phone", to my mind it's hard to emit any relevant
> judgement. There are phone with which you can't consult any webpage in
> the firstplace. Now for the "smartphone" I've been able to test, while I
> found copying a part of a text very hard, pasting was not a big deal.
> Moreover if you can push a button to send a link on some specific social
> media, you are probably able to push a button which put the url right
> into your copy/paste buffer and paste it wherever you want, don't you
> think?
>

In many cases there's no need to manually copy-paste a URL on a smartphone;
"sharing" is commonly built into the browser.

Android has an extensible framework for inter-app communications which
allows Facebook, Twitter, and numerous other social networks and similar
apps to register to appear right in the browser's "share" button prompt.

Current versions of iOS have a 'share' button in the browser with direct
access to Facebook, Twitter, and Weibo (in China), as well as a one-touch
"copy URL" option for those 'other' services. Unfortunately Apple doesn't
allow apps to add themselves to this list, so only Apple-approved services
will appear directly.

Less sure about Windows Phone or other relative rarities.


Note that desktop browsers are in some cases gaining similar capabilities;
for instance Apple's Safari in latest versions includes a "Share" button
similar to iOS's, with access to a couple hardcoded services. Nearly all
browsers that I know of support sharing a link over email directly through
a menu item, and those supporting extensions can install various social
network goodies.

-- brion