[Social-discuss] Ann: Colaua, Integrate GNU social conversations in static HTML pages

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi everyone and a happy new 2016!

I've been developing a small toy project/proof of concept to show GNU
social conversations in static HTML pages by using browser-side
JavaScript.  This is similar to Las Indias' WP-GNU social plugin for
WordPress, with the difference that it applies to completely static HTML
pages and the fetching and rendering of the conversation is left up to
the browser.  Since no server-side code is required at all, HTML pages
may remain static, which makes them amenable to store in distributed or
immutable storage systems like IPFS, ZeroNet or Camlistore.

The project is called [Colaua][] and it's intended as a plugin for the
[Nikola][] static site generator.  The Nikola side isn't developed yet
though, but the JavaScript side can be used on any HTML page regardless
of how it's generated, just by adding three elements and a couple of JS
files, so you may already use it on your pages.

Introductory post:
<https://elvil.net/drupal/en/post/colaua-gnu-social-conversations-in-static-html-pages>

Colaua is released under the public domain and hosted in a [Fossil][]
repository, you may download the code by running:

    $ fossil clone https://elvil.net/fossil/colaua.fossil
    $ mkdir colaua
    $ cd colaua
    $ fossil open ../colaua.fossil

Please test and report any suggestions, thanks!

[Colaua]: https://elvil.net/fossil/colaua/
[Nikola]: https://getnikola.com/
[Fossil]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/