IndieWeb Challenge Day 5
Tweaking Webmentions and Comments
A brief flurry of webmentions to a recent post reminded me that I needed to look again at how those things are presented. In building the new theme, I had discovered the <detail>
and <summary>
elements and used them to hide interactions as the default. I hope most people know that clicking on the triangle will expose something hidden. Ideally I would like to offer different visual presentation depending on whether either webmentions or comments exist. That is not going to happen for a while.
I did dig around enough to know that I could do something like that for webmentions, but it would mean becoming a whole lot more familiar with Javascript than I am currently. I also discovered some long-neglected modifications to the Grav comment plugin that would make a few things a lot simpler to do. That too will have to wait.
Instead, I opted to slightly tweak the presentation and to offer a brief explanation of webmentions and of comments. Tiny changes, but hey, it counts.
Two ways to respond: webmentions and comments
Webmentions
Webmentions allow conversations across the web, based on a web standard. They are a powerful building block for the decentralized social web.
“Ordinary” comments