We should consider a series of fallbacks for this internal API. The metadata story for things like icon, title, description, hero images, is complicated. Implementation in the follows real-world use cases like posting rich snippets to Facebook or getting an image to show up on Twitter, rather than some standard.
I think it would be best to think of this kind of API as a sort of light "scraper" that crawls through a collection of known in-the-wild patterns to provide a good-enough answer. --- Gordon Brander Sr Design Strategist Mozilla > On May 30, 2015, at 13:09, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > > We should use whatever formats people are using to mark up pages. If that > is microdata we should use that. If it's RDF we should use that. If its > JSONLD we should use that. > > The API that is used to extract the data is irrelevant. That will be an > internal API anyway. Effectively we should think of the browser api as an > internal api. There is no way it will be standardized in any relevant > timeframe. > > / Jonas >> On May 29, 2015 16:57, "Anne van Kesteren" <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Benjamin Francis <bfran...@mozilla.com> >> wrote: >>> Actually what might make more sense is a getLinkedData() method on the >> API >>> which returns a Promise that resolves with the JSON data, as I think >> we're >>> also going to need a getManifest() method which could work in a similar >> way. >> >> We've bitten ourselves before going down the RDF rathole (see >> extensions et al). Not sure we should so rapidly start again. Why >> can't you use the Microdata API? >> >> >> -- >> https://annevankesteren.nl/ >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-webapi mailing list >> dev-web...@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapi > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapi mailing list > dev-web...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapi _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
