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1. Zach Leatherman moments later

   the H in HTML stands for hyper-monetization

   1. ppk 🇪🇺 4 min later

      @zachleat Hyper Text Monetization Language.

   2. 👾 Attila Gonda 10 min later

      @zachleat i always thought it's "Hyper The Monetisation Language" 🤔

   3. James Harris 13 min later

      @zachleat I always thought it was How To Make Lasagna

2. Robb Knightmare 5 min later

   @zachleat I was wondering about meta tags the other day and the twitter ones specifically - what's the consensus on a "complete" solution for meta head tags? open graph plus standard ones and that's it?

   1. Dave 🧱 3 hr later

      @robb @zachleat I tend to reach for @matuzo's boilerplate for stuff like this
      https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/
      Especially since it tries to fall onto standard meta as much as possible

3. We Got One 30 min later

   @zachleat Homestar Runner would like a word

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

      @psychictides is that word trogdor

4. Chris Ferdinandi 1 hr later

   @zachleat don’t other sites use those tags too?

   1. Curtis Wilcox 2 hr later

      @cferdinandi @zachleat
      Nothing technically preventing them but there's also the Open Graph protocol (og) which was created at Facebook but is open and used a number of other platforms.

      Google Search also uses a format based on schema.org syntax.

      https://ogp.me

      https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article

      1. meduz' 4 hr later

         @cwilcox808 @cferdinandi @zachleat Last time I checked (2021 maybe), Twitter istelf was falling back on Open Graph for most of their tags. Now, duno for stuff not in the scope of Open Graph.

5. Curtis Wilcox 2 hr later

   @zachleat
   It's okay, HTML stands for Hold The Metadata Loosely.

6. Large Heydon Collider 3 hr later

   @zachleat Yes. Utterly bizarre that we have HTML tags with the word "twitter" in them.

7. Dave 🧱 3 hr later

   @zachleat Slack actually *encourages* the use of twitter named meta tags in order to add more metadata into unfurled links 😳
   https://api.slack.com/reference/messaging/link-unfurling#classic_unfurl

   1. Mike 4 hr later

      @DavidDarnes @zachleat I was just coming to say this: Slack uses them for bonus data

8. Jason Garber 4 hr later

   @zachleat I’m pretty sure that Information Superhighway Beautification was part of Biden’s infrastructure bill.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

      @jgarber call in HTML Tidy immediately

      1. Jason Garber 1 day later

         @zachleat I’m old enough to get that one.

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

            @jgarber *cries*

            1. Jason Garber 1 day later

               @zachleat tears like dust in the wind

9. Stuart Langridge 4 hr later

   @zachleat twitter:card just joins meta name=description and the ten different apple-touch-icon-precomposed things and so on. Simlar to an .htaccess file showing redirects from your URL Schemes Of Times Past; the litany of hidden <head> metadata is like "we were here" messages scratched into the walls of Pompeii, or the stone recording that Bybon son of Phola could lift it over his head. Marginalia from monks complaining about the wine in mediaeval manuscripts. A sort of shared cultural history.

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