RECCANTI asked:

RSS feeds for embeds

I was trying to parse the content field of your RSS (Atom?) feed, and I noticed I get a sort of flat structure for embedded posts like this:

<img src="..." width="64" style=" float: left; width: auto; max-width: 64x; margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 1rem; border-radius: 32px; ">
<div class="npf_row">
 <div class="npf_col">
 <figure class="tmblr-full">
 <a class="post_media_photo_anchor" data-big-photo="..." data-big-photo-height="680" data-big-photo-width="669">
 <img class="post_media_photo image" src="..." srcset="..." sizes="..." alt="image">
 </a>
 </figure>
 </div>
</div>
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I'm having a hard time figuring out how to render this out as an embed with the current markup and was wondering if you had any ideas?

Also, I think the max-width on the avatar is incorrect. It's currently 64x, not 64px

Anyway, I'm really excited about all the stuff you're doing with h-entry, webmentions, and things like that. I hope I can integrate some of that stuff into my blog eventually!

Thank you for giving me a reason to make an ask component. 🙂

When I include a repost like this in my Atom feed, I treat it as though the post I'm reblogging is itself in the feed, rather than a wrapper that contains that post. Generally speaking, As such, most of the metadata (author name, link, title if it has one) is in the rest of the feed entry rather than in the HTML contents. I don't create embeds directly from feeds—I always go to the source web page and create the embed from that—but if I were to do so, I'd treat all that metadata the same way I treat h-entry metadata for sites.

I also always wrap the things I'm embedding in some extra markup to get the nice little boxes and floating avatars and responsive design going. You can even edit the HTML a bit! It's your website, you aren't tethered to the specific code the stuff you're embedding uses.

Thanks for the tip on the 64x, I fixed it this afternoon!