X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/b2a8f0f5b43cf5c5126c800be999cbda5e49bc54..dabeec0b77a5ca81f1cc81857efeca94c1f229c6:/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn index 46b6a2512..f13213dc2 100644 --- a/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!template id=gitbranch branch=GiuseppeBilotta/inlinestuff author="Giuseppe Bilotta"]] +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=GiuseppeBilotta/inlinestuff author="[[GiuseppeBilotta]]"]] I rearranged my patchset once again, to clearly identify the origin and motivation of each patch, which is explained in the following. @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ already been included upstream. > Applied. --[[Joey]] +>> Thanks. + The second patch, ‘inline: improve feed title and description management’, aligns feed title and description management by introducing a `title` option to complement `description`, and by basing the @@ -43,6 +45,44 @@ title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description. > > Oh, and could you indent your `elsif` the same as I? --[[Joey]] +>> I hadn't even realized that I was nesting ifs inside else clauses, +>> sorry. I think you're also right about the safety of the key, after +>> all it only gets interpolated with known, safe strings. + +>>> I did not mean to imply that I thought it safe. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> Sorry for assuming you implied that. I do think it is safe, though +>>>> (I defaulted to not safe just to err on the safe side). + +>> The question is what to do for pages that do not have a description +>> (and are not the index). With your proposal, the Atom feed subtitle +>> would turn up empty. We could make it conditional in the default +>> template, or we could have `$desc` default to `$title` if nothing +>> else is provided, but at this point I see no reason to _not_ allow +>> the user to choose a way to build a default description. + +>>> RSS requires the `` element be present, it can't +>>> be conditionalized away. But I see no reason to add the complexity +>>> of an option to configure a default value for a field that +>>> few RSS consumers likely even use. That's about 3 levels below useful. +>>> --[[Joey]] + +>>>> The way I see it, there are three possibilities for non-index pages +>>>> which have no description meta: (1) we leave the +>>>> description/subtitle in feed blank, per your current proposal here +>>>> (2) we hard-code some string to put there and (3) we make the +>>>> string to put there configurable. Honestly, I think option #1 sucks +>>>> aesthetically and option #2 is conceptually wrong (I'm against +>>>> hard-coding stuff in general), which leaves option #3: however +>>>> rarely used it would be, I still think it'd be better than #2 and +>>>> less unaesthetical than #1. + +>>>> I'm also not sure what's ‘complex’ about having such an option: +>>>> it's definitely not going to get much use, but does it hurt to have +>>>> it? I could understand not wasting time putting it in, but since +>>>> the code is written already … (but then again I'm known for being a +>>>> guy who loves options). + The third patch, ‘inline: allow assigning an id to postform/feedlink’, does just that. I don't currently use it, but it can be particularly useful in the postform case for example for scriptable management of @@ -50,13 +90,43 @@ multiple postforms in the same page. > Applied. --[[Joey]] +>> Thanks. + In one of my wiki setups I had a terminating '/' in `$config{url}`. You mention that it should not be present, but I have not seen this requirement described anywhere. Rather than restricting the user input, I propose a patch that prevents double slashes from appearing in links created by `urlto()` by fixing the routine itself. +> If this is fixed I would rather not put the overhead of fixing it in +> every call to `urlto`. And I'm not sure this is a comprehensive +> fix to every problem a trailing slash in the url could cause. --[[Joey]] + +>> Maybe something that sanitizes the config value would be better instead? +>> What is the policy about automatic changing user config? + +>>> It's impossible to do for perl-format setup files. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> Ok. In that case I think that we should document that it must be +>>>> slash-less. I'll cook up a patch in that sense. + The inline plugin is also updated (in a separate patch) to use `urlto()` rather than hand-coding the feed urls. You might want to keep this change even if you discard the urlto patch. +> IIRC, I was missing a proof that this always resulted in identical urls, +> which is necessary to prevent flooding. I need such a proof before I can +> apply that. --[[Joey]] + +>> Well, the URL would obviously change if the `$config{url}` ended in +>> slash and the `urlto` patch (or other equivalent) went into effect. + +>> Aside from that, if I read the code correctly, the only other extra +>> thing that `urlto` does is to `beautify_url_path` the `"/".$to` part, +>> and the only way this would cause the url to be altered is if the +>> feed name was "index" (which can easily happen) and +>> `$config{htmlext}` was set to something like `.rss` or +>> `.rss.1`. + +>> So there is a remote possibility that a different URL would be +>> produced.