Canonical URLs for enTweetening

[nicbarajas]

Any chance that the script could try to find a canonical URL before taking the window location? Or is that just the height of silliness?

[ftrain]

Meaning like a single-page view? Probably would need to be site-by-site, with a general matcher rule to catch "printable" views. I'm guessing the Times and a few others would be the most obvious targets.

But another part of me wants it to be exactly the right page/view. That's what the publishers intended.

It's a smart request; I think I just need to think about what this thing is really for. In the meantime it's here in Github and I'll put it into the Beta requests unassigned.

[nicbarajas]

I guess my feeling was less a single-page view, which might be more trouble than it’s worth, and more trying to find a link element with a rel="canonical" attribute. I imagine it’ll often be identical to the original, but in the case of mobile sites, it will point folks to the original article instead.

[ftrain]

oh, rel="canonical" is very sensible

[npdoty]

+1 to rel="canonical"