X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/0b002b79b7241ea87ce3489b75a34116c32630e6..7bdeee20329e1d1132fbc218c49da75c22f07b03:/doc/todo/comments.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/comments.mdwn b/doc/todo/comments.mdwn index 81c2f2722..7e35a2619 100644 --- a/doc/todo/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/comments.mdwn @@ -1,19 +1,27 @@ -Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin: +# Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin -* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which - should probably be shared +## Unimplemented - > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple - > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more - > complex. --[[smcv]] +* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter + the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post. -* Previews always say "unknown IP address" + > I'm not sure this is so useful? On Livejournal titles are allowed on + > comments, but very rarely used (and indeed usually not very useful); + > it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-) + > --[[smcv]] -* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID +* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean + up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment + that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of + course). - > Done in my comments git branch --[[smcv]] + > Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be + > a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]] + +* Now that inline has some comments-specific functionality anyway, it would + be good to output `` in Atom and the equivalent in RSS. - > Not seeing it there, which branch? --[[Joey]] +## Patches pending merge * The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs @@ -22,42 +30,53 @@ Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin: > {x} and {*} smileys for anonymous, OpenID and login respectively). > --[[smcv]] -* Should the comments be visually set off more from the page above? - Rather than just a horizontal rule, I'm thinking put the comments - in a box like is used for inlined pages. + >> I've improved this to use independent icons from the wikiicons + >> directory (untested!) --[[smcv]] - > I did put them in a box in the CSS... I agree the default template - > could do with visual improvement though. --[[smcv]] + >>> The new code produces links like /wikiisons/openid.png, which + >>> fail if ikiwiki is not at the root of the web server. --[[Joey]] -* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter - the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post. + >>>> Sorry, I should have spotted that (the assumption failed on my demo + >>>> site, but the push to that site was when I was on the way out, so I + >>>> didn't have time to investigate). As a note for other ikiwiki hackers, + >>>> I should have used + >>>> ``. --[[smcv]] - > I'm not sure this is so useful? On Livejournal titles are allowed on - > comments, but very rarely used (and indeed usually not very useful); - > it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-) - > --[[smcv]] + >>> I got to wondering if the icons are needed. On my comments branch + >>> (not master), I've dropped the icons and info can be seen by hovering + >>> over the author's name. Idea being that you probably don't care how + >>> they authenticated unless something is weird, and in that case you + >>> can hover to check. Does that make sense, should I merge it? + >>> --[[Joey]] -* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean - up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment - that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of - course). + >>>> Yeah, go ahead. I preferred my layout with the author before the + >>>> comment - perhaps that's Livejournal's influence :-) - but I can always + >>>> edit the templates for my own site. As long as the default is something + >>>> reasonable and both layouts are possible, I don't really mind. + >>>> Minimizing the number of "resource" files in the basewiki also seems + >>>> a good goal. --[[smcv]] - > Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be - > a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]] +* Previews always say "unknown IP address" -* One can use inline to set up a feed of all comments posted to any page. - Using template=comment they are displayed right. Only problem - is there is no indication in that template of what page each comment in the - feed is a comment on. So, if a comment is inlined into a different page, - I think it should show a link back to the page commented on. - (BTW, the rss feed in this situation seems ok; there the link element - points back to the parent page. + > Fixed in my comments branch by commits bc66a00b and 95b3bbbf --[[smcv]] + +* The Comments link in the "toolbar" is to `index.html#comments`, not the + desired `./#comments` - > done - > Er, no, I added a link but it does not go back to the parent page of a - > comment if the comment is inlined elsewhere. --[[Joey]] + > Fixed in my comments branch by commit 0844bd0b; commits 5b1cf21a + > and c42f174e fix another `beautify_urlpath` bug and add a regression test + > --[[smcv]] + +## Won't fix + +* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which + should probably be shared -* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on + > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple + > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more + > complex. --[[smcv]] + +* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`. Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are @@ -75,17 +94,46 @@ Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin: > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]] - > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of + > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match - > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]] + > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]] + +## Done + +* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID + + > Done in my comments git branch --[[smcv]] + + > Not seeing it there, which branch? --[[Joey]] + + >> Bah, git push --all is not the default... 'comments' branch now (I've also rebased it). + >> Sorry, I'm on mobile Internet at the moment... --[[smcv]] + + >>> merged by [[Joey]] in commit 0f03af38 --[[smcv]] + +* Should the comments be visually set off more from the page above? + Rather than just a horizontal rule, I'm thinking put the comments + in a box like is used for inlined pages. + + > I did put them in a box in the CSS... I agree the default template + > could do with visual improvement though. --[[smcv]] + + >> I'll consider this solved by [[Joey]]'s changes. --[[smcv]] + +* One can use inline to set up a feed of all comments posted to any page. + Using template=comment they are displayed right. Only problem + is there is no indication in that template of what page each comment in the + feed is a comment on. So, if a comment is inlined into a different page, + I think it should show a link back to the page commented on. + (BTW, the rss feed in this situation seems ok; there the link element + points back to the parent page. + + > done --[[Joey]] * One of Joey's commit messages says "Not ideal, it would be nicer to jump to the actual comment posted, but no anchor is available". In fact there is - an anchor - the `\[[_comment]]` preprocessing wraps the comment in a
+ an anchor - the `\[[_comment]]` preprocessing wraps the comment in a `
` with id="comment_123" or something. I'll fix this, unless Joey gets there first. --[[smcv]] - > done --[[Joey]] - -* Now that inline has some comments-specific functionality anyway, it would - be good to output '' in Atom and the equivalent in RSS. + > done --[[Joey]]