2017-01-29

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Fun with LJ's sharing buttons

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.