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codinghorror 2016-10-25 00:25:36 UTC #1

Continuing the discussion from Random comic generator: Random comic generator

But seriously, we are looking at making onebox work almost everywhere (ping every site for OpenGraph and oEmbed) in this release.

Every link to a web page that has OpenGraph or oEmbed fields on the page will now be posted as a oneboxed link. We used to do this only for a narrow list of whitelisted websites — now we do it for all websites by default.

So any “bare” links you post should be prettified and oneboxed, if they can be, like so:

Responsive Images with Client Hints

It doesn’t take being a performance fanatic to know that images can really slow down a page’s load time.  We’ve come a long way when it comes to images, from lazy loading them to using better image formats like WebP, but they all involve loading the...


If you’re not sure why a link didn’t onebox, it probably does not have OpenGraph or oEmbed fields in it. You can use the http://iframely.com/debug checker to verify or view source on the page if you are just that god damned hard core™.

Please to be reporting any issues or oddities. Obligatory XKCD
fiddlingfrog 2016-10-25 00:32:27 UTC #2 Both URLs seem to check out okay on http://iframely.com/debug.

zfirphdn 2016-10-25 00:53:57 UTC #3

May I ask a question? Let me see if I can word this…

My question is about copyright. I understand that one can post a small bit of something without violating copyright, right? So I assume that the oneboxes here don’t violate copyright.

Just now I posted this link: https://goo.gl/images/24ZqEi in another thread [here, if anyone is wondering]. I actually wanted to post a link to only the largest photo that you’ll see if you click that google link. But it didn’t want to just stay as a link–it would have posted the actual photo. BUT I didn’t know if I had the right to post the photo on the bbs! Any advice?

(Having the photo rather than just posting the link would have been more dramatic and would have made my point better, but again, I didn’t know if I had the right to do that.)

codinghorror 2016-10-25 01:18:16 UTC #4

Unlikely, iframely will synthesize missing info. View source and see if the necessary fields are there. Checking the relevant tabs it … does seem valid though.

@zogstrip can have a look at any ones that should work tomorrow so keep the examples coming.

codinghorror 2016-10-26 09:06:12 UTC #5

Let’s see: Building Hybrid Applications with Electron – Several People Are Coding

Today we’ve just shipped a new version of the Slack Desktop application for macOS. We built it with Electron, and, as a result, it’s…

Reading time: 6 min read


daneel 2016-10-31 22:23:44 UTC #6

What’s up with this one? An autoplay video in the onebox?

That’s properly obnoxious.

codinghorror 2016-10-31 22:37:43 UTC #7

My browser doesn’t play it: I believe almost all Flash will be click-to-play very soon in all browsers due to security issues.

popobawa4u 2016-10-31 22:50:09 UTC #8

Any chance for a not-so-technical link about what onebox is, and why one would use it? My searching gets me lots of telephony links. 

I don’t relate to those concerns at all. Working against plagiarism and forgery I can understand. But in an ecosystem of hyperlinked media, it seems that the whole point is that people experience it. If you require centralized control of your media, then why put it on the internet? That’s not what it’s for.

codinghorror 2016-11-01 05:12:15 UTC #9

See http://searchengineland.com/meet-the-google-onebox-plus-box-direct-answers-the-10-pack-26706 and the four rules that legally define fair use. I am surprised Cory does not have them tattooed on his biceps at this point.

RatMan 2016-11-07 21:11:56 UTC #10

I’m seeing an issue with the oneboxing… sometimes an associated image doesn’t get loaded, even though it’s present and valid at the source: missing image.jpg864x385 26.4 KB
codinghorror 2016-11-07 22:40:31 UTC #11

Sure @zogstrip can you have a look?

zogstrip 2016-11-07 23:08:30 UTC #12

Works fine for me Screen Shot 2016-11-08 at 00.08.11.png1554x572 165 KB
codinghorror 2016-11-07 23:08:57 UTC #13

Good news! I’ve deployed latest here and almost all the not-oneboxing or bad-oneboxing cases we’ve seen, @zogstrip has fixed! In particular @fiddlingfrog I rebaked your post and one of them is working now, not quite sure on the other.

Also @RatMan your oneboxed link looks fine to me Early voter turnout in San Diego hits record high

San Diegans are turning out to vote early at the Registrar of Voters office Monday morning.

fiddlingfrog 2016-11-08 15:12:26 UTC #14 

The second URL is just a cleaned-up version of the first, so one out of two is just fine.

jerwin 2016-11-29 08:51:07 UTC #15 Ransomware creep accidentally hijacks San Francisco Muni, won't give it back


The onebox apparently forces a login request. Maybe krebs is being ultra paranoid because of the risk of DDOS, but…

dfaris 2016-11-29 14:49:44 UTC #16

He has every reason to be ultra paranoid.


codinghorror 2016-11-29 21:54:03 UTC #17

Oh I see that’s the weird wordpress oneboxing that @zogstrip just fixed. I’ll deploy that now.

danegeld 2017-01-03 21:40:54 UTC #18

Amazon oneboxing is resulting in a box labelled “Robot Check” 100 LED lights on a 33-foot string of copper wire

I knew that something looked familiar about the copper-wire strand of lights… Saw these when I was getting some solar holiday lights: 72 foot solar powered version for a few bucks more – there is a 33 foot version for a few bucks less [image]

codinghorror 2017-01-03 21:41:41 UTC #19

It depends how often we ping Amazon to get item data. They don’t like frequent pings. I can rebake it later.

nemomen 2017-01-03 22:12:53 UTC #20

This Onebox failure is a crime against all that it good, just, and polite: The Pleasantries of Princess Pricklepants

Ponderings, Perusings, and Peregrinations of a Practically Perfect Hedgehog
