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microsyntax refers to short text conventions for conveying specific semantic meaning, such as an "@" prefix indicating a (user)name, or "#" prefix indicating a hashtag (both conventions popularized by Twitter).
Research
Please see previous work at microformats.org:
New research:
- (Y) - Used for the thumbs up emoticon on Skype, Facebook
- <3 - ASCII heart, used as substitute for “love”
Brainstorming
A place to brainstorm indieweb microsyntax especially for plaintext notes, and POSSEing of specific types of posts to plaintext-like POSSE destinations (e.g. Twitter])
at-sign for in-reply-to URL
- @example.com/some-post => <a href="http://example.com/some-post" class="u-in-reply-to">
- We need pfefferle and acegiak to clarify their use case. Just adding links to the users domain in your post will send a webmention to the domain, so IMO it is unnecessary to prefix user domains with @ so I'm assuming they meant post urls. —Sandeep Shetty
- The idea was to generate an easy mardownish way to generate semantic links, not really meant to display to any enduser - Matthias Pfefferle
- No one does this currently (any real world example?) - feels a bit forced. People already think of "@" as meaning "hey this person". - Tantek 15:54, 21 June 2013 (PDT)
- -1 agreed, this example is forced and doesn’t reflect real world usage. @mentions succeeded because they were a paved cowpath, it defeats the object to try to repurpose them --Waterpigs.co.uk 16:07, 21 June 2013 (PDT)
- "we wanted a way to mark which one was the reply-to without needing to edit the html because we want the plugins to be accessible to non-technical wordpress users - plus, adding the html manually would be tiresome, so we're trying to work out a way to make it quick and easy" -acegiak
- Seems OK to me but I've settled on
re: http://example.com/some-post in my personal logs & recently on my site (e.g.1, e.g.2; just using as minimal reply context for now as I'm pretty sure others do). I've been only using it at the start of an entry but I think you could safely use it anywhere. Colintedford.com 21:11, 7 January 2015 (PST)
heart for like
- <3 example.com =><a href="http://example.com" class="u-like">
metrics and exercise
Various metrics could use emoji, i.e. when POSSEing to text-like destinations like Twitter
- 🌜Slept 8 hours
- 🚲 Evening Ride
- 🚙 Drove 3.2 miles in 25 minutes
- 🏃 Ran 3.2 miles in 25 minutes
- 🚶 Walked 3.2 miles in 50 minutes
- 💪 Did 13pushups
- 👣 Weighed 153.3lbs
quotations
A minimal plaintext syntax for posting quotations which an auto-linker/formatter could use to style it properly.
“the personal blog, yourname•com, where you control everything and get to do whatever the hell pleases you” http://avc.com/2014/08/the-personal-blog/ #indieweb
https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/504674367565869056
“I miss being able to engage other people online in discussions that are actually productive.” @espiers http://elizabethspiers.com/2014/08/25/here-i-go-again-on-my-own/ #indieweb
https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/504675650943582208
"I wanted to reply to that comment, but could not for the life of me, log into WordPress to leave it. So I’ll blog about it instead." http://avc.com/2014/08/the-personal-blog/
http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2014/08/27/1/
These examples consist of the following components:
- quoted text wrapped in standard or curly quotes ("" or “”)
- source URL
- optional author name
- optional hashtags
See Also
