This includes several breaking changes, but they’re easy to adjust for.
Atom 1.0 is superior to RSS 2.0 in a number of ways, both technical and
legal, though information from the last decade is hard to find.
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
has some info which is probably still mostly correct.
How do RSS and Atom compare in terms of implementation support? The
impression I get is that proper Atom support in normal content websites
has been universal for over twelve years, but that support in podcasts
was not quite so good, but getting there, over twelve years ago. I have
no more recent facts or figures; no one talks about this stuff these
days. I remember investigating this stuff back in 2011–2013 and coming
to the same conclusion. At that time, I went with Atom on websites and
RSS in podcasts. Now I’d just go full Atom and hang any podcast tools
that don’t support Atom, because Atom’s semantics truly are much better.
In light of all this, I make the bold recommendation to default to Atom.
Nonetheless, for compatibility for existing users, and for those that
have Opinions, I’ve retained the RSS template, so that you can escape
the breaking change easily.
I personally prefer to give feeds a basename that doesn’t mention “Atom”
or “RSS”, e.g. “feed.xml”. I’ll be doing that myself, as I’ll be using
my own template with more Atom features anyway, like author information,
taxonomies and making the title field HTML.
Some notes about the Atom feed template:
- I went with atom.xml rather than something like feed.atom (the .atom
file format being registered for this purpose by RFC4287) due to lack
of confidence that it’ll be served with the right MIME type. .xml is a
safer default.
- It might be nice to get Zola’s version number into the <generator>
tag. Not for any particularly good reason, y’know. Just picture it:
<generator uri="https://www.getzola.org/" version="0.10.0">
Zola
</generator>
- I’d like to get taxonomies into the feed, but this requires exposing a
little more info than is currently exposed. I think it’d require
`TaxonomyConfig` to preferably have a new member `permalink` added
(which should be equivalent to something like `config.base_url ~ "/" ~
taxonomy.slug ~ "/"`), and for the feed to get all the taxonomies
passed into it (`taxonomies: HashMap<String, TaxonomyTerm>`).
Then, the template could be like this, inside the entry:
{% for taxonomy, terms in page.taxonomies %}
{% for term in terms %}
<category scheme="{{ taxonomies[taxonomy].permalink }}"
term="{{ term.slug }}" label="{{ term.name }}" />
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
Other remarks:
- I have added a date field `extra.updated` to my posts and include that
in the feed; I’ve observed others with a similar field. I believe this
should be included as an official field. I’m inclined to add author to
at least config.toml, too, for feeds.
- We need to have a link from the docs to the source of the built-in
templates, to help people that wish to alter it.
* maybe_slugify() only does simple sanitation if config.slugify is false
* slugify is disabled by default, turn on for backwards-compatibility
* First docs changes for optional slugification
* Remove # from slugs but not &
* Add/fix tests for utf8 slugs
* Fix test sites for i18n slugs
* fix templates tests for i18n slugs
* Rename slugify setting to slugify_paths
* Default slugify_paths
* Update documentation for slugify_paths
* quasi_slugify removes ?, /, # and newlines
* Remove forbidden NTFS chars in quasi_slugify()
* Slugification forbidden chars can be configured
* Remove trailing dot/space in quasi_slugify
* Fix NTFS path sanitation
* Revert configurable slugification charset
* Remove \r for windows newlines and \t tabulations in quasi_slugify()
* Update docs for output paths
* Replace slugify with slugify_paths
* Fix test
* Default to not slugifying
* Move slugs utils to utils crate
* Use slugify_paths for anchors as well
* Add path to `TranslatedContent`
This makes it possible to retrieve the translated page through the `get_page` function.
* Use TranslatedContent::path field in test_site_i18n
Use it with the `get_page` function to get a reference to the page object.
* Compute canonical path before adjusting parent path
* Don't use adjusted `parent` to recalculate `canonical` in `find_language`
* Add regression tests
- Test for correct canonical field when calling `new_page`
- Test for correct canonical field after calling `find_language`
* feat(pagination): Add `total_pages` in paginator object
* feat(pagination): Added doc for `total_pages`
* feat(pagination): Added test for `total_pages`
* fix the issue of generating the search index for multiple language
* updat docs for generating the search index for multiple language
* fix failed tests
* add tests for the search index of multiple language
These functions expect that file_path can have base_path stripped from
it, but during reloading they can be given relative paths. Maybe this
behaviour varies between the notify backends?
This fixes two zola serve panics on FreeBSD (poll backend).
Clippy is returning some warnings. Let's fix or explicitly ignore
them. In particular:
- In `components/imageproc/src/lib.rs`, we implement `Hash` explicitly
but derive `PartialEq`. We need to maintain the property that two
keys being equal implies the hashes of those two keys are equal.
Our `Hash` implementations preserve this, so we'll explicitly ignore
the warnings.
- In `components/site/src/lib.rs`, we were calling `.into()` on some
values that are already of the correct type.
- In `components/site/src/lib.rs`, we were using `.map(|x| *x)` in
iterator chains to remove a level of indirection; we can instead say
`.copied()` (introduced in Rust v1.36) or `.cloned()`. Using
`.copied` here is better from a type-checking point of view, but
we'll use `.cloned` for now as Rust v1.36 was only recently
released.
- In `components/templates/src/filters.rs` and
`components/utils/src/site.rs`, we were taking `HashMap`s as
function arguments but not generically accepting alternate `Hasher`
implementations.
- In `src/cmd/check.rs`, we use `env::current_dir()` as a default
value, but our use of `unwrap_or` meant that we would always
retrieve the current directory even when not needed.
- In `components/errors/src/lib.rs`, we can use `if let` rather than
`match`.
- In `components/library/src/content/page.rs`, we can collapse a
nested conditional into `else if let ...`.
- In `components/library/src/sorting.rs`, a function takes `&&Page`
arguments. Clippy warns about this for efficiency reasons, but
we're doing it here to match a particular sorting API, so we'll
explicitly ignore the warning.
* Add check subcommand
* Add some brief documentation for the check subcommand
* Start working on parallel link checks
* Check all external links in Site
* Return *all* dead links in site
