A few patches to clean up and improve feed management for inline pages.
* the first patch simply replaces the id attribute in the default template for feedlinks with a class attribute by the same name. This is necessary in pages with multiple inlines to guarantee correctness
+
+ > Ok, but blogform.tmpl has the same problem. And either change can need
+ > CSS changes. (blogform in particular is used in style.css as an id.)
+ > So this needs more documentation and associated work. --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> I didn't include blogform in the change because the case of two
+ >> blog post forms in the same page is probably extremely rare. But
+ >> then again I remember doing having them in one of my ikiwiki
+ >> draftings, so I rewrote the patch to include blogform. I had
+ >> checked the distributed CSS for #feedlinks references, without
+ >> finding any. The new patch does include CSS changes for the
+ >> \#blogform -> .blogform change. I have no idea on where to document
+ >> this change though.
+
+ >>> Picked. NEWSed. --[[Joey]]
+
* the second patch tries to define the default description for a feed based not only on the wiki name, but also on the current page name. The actual way this is built might not be the optimal one, so I'm open to suggestions
-* the third patch passes the feed titles to the templates, changing the default templates to use these as title attributes for the links. a rel="alternate" attribute is also included
-* the fourth patch introduces a feedlinks parameter to the inline directive, to allow for the specifications of the locations where the feed links should appear. Currently, two options are allowed (head and body), plus both and none with obvious significance
+
+ > I don't really like using "wikiname/page" as the name of the feed. It's
+ > a bit too mechanical. I'd be ok with using just the page name,
+ > with a fallback to wikiname for the toplevel index. Or maybe
+ > something like "$wikiname's $page".
+ >
+ > Also, shouldn't `pagetitle` be run on the page name? (Haven't checked.)
+ > --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> The rewritten patch now sets the feed title using the page title, and the feed description
+ >> using the page _description_, both obtained from meta if possible. If there is no page
+ >> description, then we use the page title combined with the wiki name. I introduce a new
+ >> configuration key to customize the actual automatic description.
+
+ >>> The feed title part of this seems unnecessary. As far as I can see,
+ >>> ikiwiki already uses the page title as the feed title; TITLE in the
+ >>> rsspage.tmpl is handled the same as TITLE in page.tmpl. --[[Joey]]
+
+* the (former) third patch passes the feed titles to the templates, changing the default templates to use these as title attributes for the links. a rel="alternate" attribute is also included
+
+ > Seems reasonable. Cherry-picked. Note that the title attribute
+ > will be shown by browsers as a tooltip. So I made it say
+ > "$name (RSS feed)"
+
+ >> Good, thanks.
+
+* the (new) third patch passes uses the included rather than the including page for the URL. This is
+ actually a forgotten piece from my previous patch (now upstream) to base the feed name on the
+ included rather than the including page, and it's only relevant for nested inline pages.
+
+ > I have a vague memory of considering doing this before, and not,
+ > because there is actually no guarantee that the inlined page (that
+ > itself contains an inline) will generate an url. It could be excluded;
+ > it could be an internal page; it could use a conditional to omit the
+ > inline when not inlined.
+ >
+ > Also, I think that `destpage` gets set wrong. And I think that
+ > `get_inline_content` is called with the source page, rather than the
+ > destpage, and so could generate urls that don't work on the destpage.
+ >
+ > All in all, this is an edge case, and currently seems to work ok, so
+ > why change it? --[[Joey]]
+
+* the (former) fourth patch introduces a feedlinks parameter to the inline directive, to allow for the specifications of the locations where the feed links should appear. Currently, two options are allowed (head and body), plus both and none with obvious significance
+
+ > Hmm. This doesn't affect the feed links in the blogform.tmpl. Anyway,
+ > this is not something I see a real benefit of making configurable above
+ > the template editing level. I don't see any point whatsoever of
+ > allowing to turn off the feed links in the `<head>` -- they are not
+ > user-visible, and IIRC that is the recommended and most portable way
+ > to encode the information for feed discovery agents (rather than
+ > putting it in the body). And the sorry state of "modern" browsers,
+ > such as chromium's support for RSS means that it still makes sense to
+ > have user-visible feed buttons. If that changed, it would make sense to
+ > modify ikiwiki to globally remove them. --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> I was actually quite surprised myself by the lack of automatic feed
+ >> discovery in chromium (although I noticed there's a sort-of
+ >> official plugin to do it). Overall, I believe your critique is
+ >> well-founded, I'll scratch this patch.
+
+* the (new) fourth patch introduces a `feedtitle` parameter to override the feed title. I opted for
+ not squashing it with the second patch to allow you to scrap this but sitll get the other, in case
+ you're not too happy about having a plethora of parameters
+
+ > This seems clearly a good idea, since there is already a "description"
+ > parameter. But, by analogy with that parameter, it should just be
+ > called "title". --[[Joey]]
+
+* a fifth patch introduces an `id` parameter to allow setting the HTML id attribute in the
+ blogpost/feedlinks template. Since we replace their id with a class (first patch), this brings
+ back the possibility for direct CSS customization and JavaScript manipulation based on id.
+
+ > That sort of makes sense, but it somehow seems wrong that "id" should
+ > apply to only cruft at the top of the inline, and not the entire div
+ > generated for it. --[[Joey]]
+
+* 30a4de2aa3ab29dd9397c2edd91676e80bc06feb "urlto: prevent // when {url} ends with /"
+
+ > The `url` in the setup file should not end in a slash. Probably more
+ > things get ugly doubled slashes if someone does that. --[[Joey]]
+
+* 57a9b5c4affda9e855f09a64747e5225d6254079 "inline: use urlto instead of manually building the RSS url"
+
+ > Well, that seems ok. 3 parameter urlto should give us an absolute url.
+ >
+ > But we have to be careful and verify that it will always produce
+ > exactly the same url as before. Changing the feed url unnecessarily
+ > can probably flood aggregators or something... --[[Joey]]
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