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Vincent Prouillet a3a5b9ea06
Merge pull request #976 from getzola/next
0.11.0
2020-05-25 18:14:42 +02:00
Vincent Prouillet 07e0853183 Update themes 2020-04-15 18:53:46 +02:00
Chris Morgan e25915b231 Support and default to generating Atom feeds
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.
2020-04-14 17:27:08 +05:30
Vincent Prouillet 0585a1f59b Update all themes 2019-07-13 00:03:19 +02:00
toidiu 5ae75033ac bump version in deployment docs (#680)
* bump version in deployment docs
2019-05-07 16:17:47 +02:00
Vincent Prouillet 522c06e736 Update all themes 2019-04-06 11:37:58 +02:00
Vincent Prouillet 2b433e83f6 Update themes 2018-11-17 18:27:48 +01:00
Vincent Prouillet 3db404c9f9 Update themes docs 2018-08-04 13:15:01 +02:00
Daniel Sockwell ae0ade94f6 Render live demo link for themes if there is one 2018-07-16 08:47:04 +02:00
Vincent Prouillet c0ea30e2e1 Update themes & design list 2018-03-05 18:21:53 +01:00
Vincent Prouillet f93fba9563 Update dependencies 2018-03-05 18:12:28 +01:00
Vincent Prouillet 9e5c34df66 WIP theme site 2018-02-23 18:05:46 +01:00