From 2953b9d850718f2b27badc5d204b930fa23872cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:15:58 -0500 Subject: response --- doc/plugins/contrib/postcomment.mdwn | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/postcomment.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/postcomment.mdwn index 9934baa95..2e501995f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/postcomment.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/postcomment.mdwn @@ -12,6 +12,19 @@ only by direct committers. Currently, comments are always in [[ikiwiki/markdown] > namespace, such as `$page/comments/*`? Then you could use [[plugins/lockedit]] to > limit editing of comments in more powerful ways. --[[Joey]] +>> Er... I suppose so. I'd assumed that these pages ought to only exist as inlines +>> rather than as individual pages (same reasoning as aggregated posts), though. +>> +>> lockedit is actually somewhat insufficient, since `check_canedit()` +>> doesn't distinguish between creation and editing; I'd have to continue to use +>> some sort of odd hack to allow creation but not editing. +>> +>> I also can't think of any circumstance where you'd want a user other than +>> admins (~= git committers) and possibly the commenter (who we can't check for +>> at the moment anyway, I don't think?) to be able to edit comments - I think +>> user expectations for something that looks like ordinary blog comments are +>> likely to include "others can't put words into my mouth". --[[smcv]] + Directives and raw HTML are filtered out by default, and comment authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users. @@ -19,6 +32,13 @@ hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users. > htmlsanitizer and htmlbalanced plugins are enabled. I can see filtering > out directives, as a special case. --[[Joey]] +>> Right, if I sanitize each post individually, with htmlscrubber and either htmltidy +>> or htmlbalance turned on, then there should be no way the user can forge a comment; +>> I was initially wary of allowing meta directives, but I think those are OK, as long +>> as the comment template puts the \[[!meta author]] at the *end*. Disallowing +>> directives is more a way to avoid commenters causing expensive processing than +>> anything else, at this point. --[[smcv]] + When comments have been enabled generally, you still need to mark which pages can have comments, by including the `\[[!postcomment]]` directive in them. By default, this directive expands to a "post a comment" link plus an `\[[!inline]]` with @@ -30,6 +50,16 @@ the comments. > add the comment posting form and comments to the end of each page. > --[[Joey]] +>> I don't think I'd want comments on *every* page (particularly, not the +>> front page). Perhaps a pagespec in the setup file, where the default is "*"? +>> Then control freaks like me could use "link(tags/comments)" and tag pages +>> as allowing comments. +>> +>> The model used for discussion pages does require patching the existing +>> page template, which I was trying to avoid - I'm not convinced that having +>> every possible feature hard-coded there really scales (and obviously it's +>> rather annoying while this plugin is on a branch). --[[smcv]] + The plugin adds a new [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] match type, `postcomment`, for use with `anonok_pagespec` from the [[plugins/anonok]] plugin or `locked_pages` from the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin. Typical usage would be something like: -- cgit v1.2.3