Add "share" to the interaction links

[deborah]

Title:
Add "share" to the interaction links

Area:
entries

Summary:
Dreamwidth isn't a platform for tumblr or twitter style reblogging / retweeting, but it would be nice if it were easier to share others' posts with your readers. Luckily, the functionality is already in the code base! It's just not exposed via the UI.

Let's expose the "share" functionality via the UI.

Description:
We have this awesome share functionality in the code base. If you go to the URL

http://www.dreamwidth.org/update?share=http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html

You get a new post window, ready for editing, with the subject:

dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013

and the body:

<a href="http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html">dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013</a>

This is awesome, and we should expose it via the UI, probably in the interaction links, with "track", "share", etc. (The share URL will also work for external sites, but unless someone writes a bookmarklet or some such that's harder to work with in our UI.)

Changes to the current interface I'd suggest:

* Make it work with https (it currently doesn't)
* For dreamwidth internal URLs, change the format of the body text to

<user name="dw-news"> said "<a href="http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html">dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013</a>".

Poll #13972 Add "share" to the interaction links

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Should be implemented as-is.
18 (39.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
9 (19.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (21.7%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (19.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Privacy issues aside, would it be possible to select the text click 'share' then have your selection automatically blockquoted? Without any sort of additional clicking I mean. And would that be ui-friendly?

[deborah]

I bet it would, using the same mechanism the current quick-reply quoting functionality uses. And screen readers and keyboards can allow selection, though it's a pain.

[ninetydegrees]

Hmm. Don't you have to click on 'quote' to quote' in quick reply?

[deborah]

yeah, but it does automatically grab anything that's selected when you do it. Doesn't it? Let's see ...

quick r

answer, yes, although getting it to work with assistive technology is a no go at least at this immediate moment. But that might just be my setup.

[ninetydegrees]

I think I meant something different. Like you wouldn't have to hit quote. If we take quick reply, just selecting a block then clicking 'reply to this' would have the block already quoted in the reply form. Magic-like.