FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back

[helge]

Hello!

This is a discussion thread for the proposed FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back.
Please use this thread to discuss the proposed FEP and any potential problems or improvements that can be addressed.

Summary:

Links are a fundamental part of the internet. This FEP describes how to use
links to link a HTML page to an ActivityPub object. The mechanisms described
in this document are not new and are used to link to RSS feeds (see[alternate,
second example).

[silverpill]

What does it mean in practice? Am I supposed to parse HTML if a server returns HTML page when ActivityPub object is requested?

[helge]

Yes. That’s one of the things this FEP enables you to do. The second option is somebody to create a browser extension that provides similar functionality to the RSS icon for ActivityPub:

Mastodon already supports the “get html → parse → get link” behavior: