Fun with LJ's sharing buttons
Jan. 29th, 2017 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, I just discovered you can replace (I mean manually) the href="javascript:void(0);" in the a tags with actual GET strings to, e.g. Twitter's sharing doohicky, HOWEVER,
while
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcodeswitcher.dreamwidth.com%2F131.html%3Futm_source%3Dtwsharing%26utm_medium%3Dsocial&text=Post%20Idea&
Is fine
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcodeswitcher.dreamwidth.com%2F131.html%3Futm_source%3Dtwsharing%26utm_medium%3Dsocial&text=Post%20Idea&hashtags=LJ,programming
instead triggers LJ's javascript pop-up sharing thingy, for no obvious reason, and does not actually follow that link on clicking.
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcodeswitcher.dreamwidth.com%2F131.html%3Futm_source%3Dtwsharing%26utm_medium%3Dsocial&text=Post%20Idea&hashtags=
Does the javascript thing, too.
Huh. The trigger seems to be the word "hashtags"? How bizarre.
Fortunately, that's an undesirable feature anyway, so good riddance.
while
Is fine
instead triggers LJ's javascript pop-up sharing thingy, for no obvious reason, and does not actually follow that link on clicking.
Does the javascript thing, too.
Huh. The trigger seems to be the word "hashtags"? How bizarre.
Fortunately, that's an undesirable feature anyway, so good riddance.