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The Microsoft trigger was `text-justify: newspaper` and intended for fully-justified narrow columns. I don't think it made it to Edge.
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Both Mastodon and Tumblr have microformats support built in. Twitter and Facebook used to, but they decided they'd rather be silos than protocols
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Hi Clay, Kevin Marks here. I an help you scrape it out of wordpress into a static site if you like, I've done similar for Dan Gilmor and other old bloggers. Ping me - [email protected]
Comment · 4 years ago
Read the post - previously deleted tweets showed the blockquote fallback. Now they get a useless injected blank iframe, removing the blockquote from the dom.
Comment · 4 years ago
You're wrong. The tweet embeds decorate a blockquote of the tweet - read the article. The now code removes that blockquote from the DOM.
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We trusted them because they were committed to being part of the wider web, and as you can see from Ben Ward's tweet at the time, took that seriously.
Comment · 4 years ago
If they want to change this, they can have a new version of the widgets script that makes it clear that it will edit your site, and switch to that in future embed links from the site. Changing the existing one is leaving holes all over the web. Buzzfeed is decimated.

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