<head><link rel="webfinger" href="acct:me@lol.it" /></head>?

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elf Pavlik

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Feb 12, 2012, 6:35:04 AM2/12/12
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Hello,

Do we have a recommended way to specify a webfinger for given profile page?
As in subject I think in direction of:
<head><link rel="webfinger" href="acct:m...@lol.me" /></head>

I just thought about possibility of using OExchange to implement following someone on remote domain using OStatus. Maybe this way using OExchange to pass URL which has link relation to some "acct" to my OStatus enabled service, could give me an option to follow this person.

Any thoughts?
=)
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Pelle Wessman

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Feb 12, 2012, 7:49:32 AM2/12/12
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If it would just be a link to a generic webfinger identifier then using rel="me" for profile pages and rel="author" for articles would be enough  I think - no need for a new relation type. You will know that it's a webfinger identifier by the style of the href, won't you?

And regarding the use of OExchange - have you looked at Web Intents? If eg. OStatus was to define a Web Intents intent of it's own then that could easily be used to add follow-buttons on any OStatus profile that any OStatus subscriber could subscribe to. Google Chrome already has initial support for Web Intents in their latest dev builds.

/ Pelle Wessman

elf Pavlik

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Feb 12, 2012, 8:27:19 AM2/12/12
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Excerpts from Pelle Wessman's message of 2012-02-12 12:49:32 +0000:

> If it would just be a link to a generic webfinger identifier then using
> rel="me" for profile pages and rel="author" for articles would be enough I
> think - no need for a new relation type. You will know that it's a
> webfinger identifier by the style of the href, won't you?
i get your point and agree!

> And regarding the use of OExchange - have you looked at Web Intents? If eg.
> OStatus was to define a Web Intents intent of it's own then that could
> easily be used to add follow-buttons on any OStatus profile that any
> OStatus subscriber could subscribe to. Google Chrome already has initial
> support for Web Intents in their latest dev builds.

i've just subscribed to Web Intents mailing list few days ago but haven't read up on it yet, would you like to share some more details on how we could implement such 'follow-buttons' with them?

> / Pelle Wessman
thanks for your suggestions Pelle =)
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