X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/2c964092d6c3022cf13b51ff65dbdf3c305238f2..cf1290eb464f1256aa5c12d973fff774e4f83e5e:/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 bfc7531bb..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. @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description. >> 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 @@ -56,6 +61,28 @@ title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description. >> 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 @@ -78,6 +105,11 @@ created by `urlto()` by fixing the routine itself. >> 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.