Google+ and Facebook Sharing

[existdissolve]

Love the new Google+ sharing! Is there any way to use the title of the Fiddle for the title of the Google+ and Facebook sharing links? Currently, it simply inserts the generic title of the Fiddle site itself, whereas Twitter uses the title of the Fiddle.

Just a "nice to have". Thanks!

[mitchellsimoens]

The issue that I found out is that since the link uses hash that information is of course not sent to the server so there isn't a way the server can detect and set the title. However, still going to look into some possibilities to how it works.

[existdissolve]

The issue that I found out is that since the link uses hash that information is of course not sent to the server so there isn't a way the server can detect and set the title. However, still going to look into some possibilities to how it works.

I've not done this personally, but does something like this work? https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/

Maybe microdata or Open Graph protocols could be used?

[ShariWilkins]

This would just be great..

[existdissolve]

I've not done this personally, but does something like this work? https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/

Maybe microdata or Open Graph protocols could be used?

In thinking about this in more depth (and having to pull it off for one of my own projects), I realized that this is not an insignificant thing to do. Since Google/Facebook read the Open Graph data from the meta tags, the information has to be there when the page is crawled...so obviously modifying those tags with JS after the fact is not going to be particularly helpful.

The way I'm going to approach it on my project is to have a special end point which will render the correct document meta for Open Graph's purposes when the link is crawled, and then redirect to the appropriate fragment in the actual application. We'll see how it works.

[mitchellsimoens]

@existdissolve so as a thanks for the mention in your latest blog about Fiddle (thanks btw), I added some <meta> elements to the head for the Open Graph. Admittedly this is my first time using them but seems to be working. Since hash isn't sent to the server you have to send a URL parameter for the server to setup the meta nodes. The link from the share links have been updated but the URL should be like http://fiddle.sencha.com/?fiddle=abc#fiddle/abc where abc us the fiddle id. Will be working on it more but pasting a URL into Facebook manually seems that it's working perfectly.

[existdissolve]

@existdissolve so as a thanks for the mention in your latest blog about Fiddle (thanks btw), I added some <meta> elements to the head for the Open Graph. Admittedly this is my first time using them but seems to be working. Since hash isn't sent to the server you have to send a URL parameter for the server to setup the meta nodes. The link from the share links have been updated but the URL should be like http://fiddle.sencha.com/?fiddle=abc#fiddle/abc where abc us the fiddle id. Will be working on it more but pasting a URL into Facebook manually seems that it's working perfectly.

That's awesome! I definitely appreciate the responsiveness that you've had to requests on this forum...Fiddle is turning into a very awesome tool!

Thanks again