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diff --git a/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn index 2dbadcd60..b48c37d7b 100644 --- a/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/feed_enhancements_for_inline_pages.mdwn @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description. >>> 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 @@ -64,6 +67,22 @@ title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description. >>> 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 @@ -88,6 +107,9 @@ created by `urlto()` by fixing the routine itself. >>> 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. |