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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

  • Add external class to comment timestamp.
  • Add hover state to slider thumb.
  • Add loading animation to "Load Comments" button.
  • Add zoom-on-hover to custom comment emojis.
  • Style mentions and hashtags.

Changed

  • Add margin between comment author name and timestamp.
  • Make comment timestamp more subtle.
  • Set socials icons as CSS variables and not inline styles.
  • Tweak padding of verified instance badge.
  • Use more fitting cursors in some contexts.

4.8.0

Added

  • Add a separator between the article description and details.
  • Highlight the button of the currently selected theme in the theme switcher.
  • Indicate active navbar items for footer links.
  • Support optional LaTeX rendering using the KaTeX library (#65).

Changed

  • Make button hover styles consistent across all buttons.
  • Make navbar modifications also affect menu buttons (#69, nice).

Removed

  • Remove GoatCounter noscript tracking pixel from the <head> section.

Fixed

  • Fix missing margin between the article card heading and its details when no description is set (#68).
  • Fix tags not floating to the end of the article card.

4.7.1 - 2024-08-28

Changed

  • Don't use safe on primary_color default variables since they don't need it.
  • Make commented-out config variables easier to find.

Fixed

  • Don't wrap sentences in navbar dropdowns.

4.7.0 - 2024-08-27

Added

  • Add banner_pixels front matter variable.
  • Add CHANGELOG.md (#60).
  • Add hot/poor article types (#58).
  • Add metadata card generation from post banner if present (#51).
  • Add navbar menus (#56).
  • Add simple variable overrides for stylesheets (#55).
  • Add Vimeo embed shortcode.
  • Add YouTube embed shortcode (#57).

Changed

  • Don't duplicate icons in the resulting CSS.
  • Hide CRTs from screen readers (#64).
  • Move article list to a partial.
  • Reduce nesting depth in _footer.scss
  • Refreshed look of articles in the article list.
  • Rewrite _nav.scss.
  • Use flex for post heading/badge (#53).
  • Use modern RGB format (#54).
  • Use page/section description instead of config if available (#50).

Fixed

  • Close all other navbar dropdowns when different one opens (#59).
  • New active navbar item indication that doesn't escape navbar on mobile (#62).
  • Prevent navbar from obfuscating post banner on mobile (#61).

4.6.0 - 2024-08-23

Added

  • Add missing "By $AUTHOR" string to i18n files (#52).
  • Add missing edge highlight to home button.
  • Utilize flex power for navbar adaptivity.

Changed

  • Change theme switcher icon depending on currently selected mode (#48).
  • Update "Tricks" page to reflect the recent navabr changes.

Fixed

4.5.0 - 2024-08-18

Added

  • Add manual light/dark mode switcher (#5).

Changed

  • Improve adaptivity of footer on mobile.

4.4.0 - 2024-08-17

Added

  • Add home icon to the home button.
  • Add top/bottom margin to inline images on mobile (#46).
  • Add unique active style for home button.

Changed

  • Greatly optimize and simplify CRT styles.
  • Improve adaptivity of navbar on mobile.
  • Use --contrast-color for footer's "Powered by" links.

4.3.0 - 2024-08-15

Added

  • Add styling for the color picker element.
  • Add styling for the slider element.
  • Add temporary extra.fix_contrast and extra.fix_contrast_dark config variables for cases where default white color doesn't provide enough contrast, e.g. in text selection and checkboxes (#43).
  • Show status when there are no comments to load.

Changed

  • Allow custom styles to override primary color.
  • Increase fleuron size.
  • Make post tags wrap properly on mobile.

Fixed

  • Fix full_bleed image/video shortcode variable.
  • Fix line height in footer.
  • Fix text color in search bar using User Agent color.

4.2.1 - 2024-08-06

Fixed

  • Fix phantom search bar causing spaces on the sides of short navbars, even when search is disabled.

4.2.0 - 2024-08-06

Added

  • Add fallback styling for code blocks if no syntax highlighting theme is specified.
  • Add support for Zola's config.markdown.bottom_footnotes config variable.
  • Add support for Zola's external_links_target_blank, external_links_no_follow, and external_links_no_referrer config variables.
  • Add support for Zola's lazy_async_image config variable.
  • Add title to "Copy code" button.
  • Add title to comments QR code.
  • Add titles to buttons without visible text.

Changed

  • Allow archiving pages without reasoning.
  • Allow external link icon to grow past the default size.
  • Change default primary color to slate.
  • Change padding of various elements to be pixel-perfect.
  • Don't set background on horizontal rule's fleuron.
  • Give comment author's instance badge some space to breathe.
  • Increase spacing between comment timestamp and its contents.
  • Make checkbox animation smoother.
  • Remove bottom margin from the last element inside <details>
  • Replace language-specific pages with symlinks (only affects Duckquill demo).
  • Use checkmark icon for verified instance badge instead of a Unicode glyph.
  • Use RTL-friendly border radius properties.

Removed

  • Remove focused heading animation, since it was rather distracting.

Fixed

  • Fix broken line height in Arabic.
  • Fix height of previous/next post navigation buttons.
  • Fix search bar getting stuck in the disabled state after reloading page with it being open.
  • Replace leftover tabi paths with Duckquill.

4.1.0 - 2024-07-22

Added

  • Add "Tricks" page with some useful tips and tricks (#28).
  • Add estimated read time counter to articles (#36).
  • Allow setting different primary color for dark mode.
  • Support image/video/gif/audio attachments in comments.

Changed

  • Reduce top margin of headings.
  • Replace weird unset CSS keyword with values that make more sense.

Removed

  • Remove tags from the article.

Fixed

  • Fix code blocks with complex settings.

4.0.0 - 2024-07-20

Added

  • Add comments reloading.
  • Add GitHub-style alerts.
  • Add localization to comments QR code alt text.
  • Add minimal size for separator between home button and other links in navabr.
  • Add post banners.
  • Style more HTML elements.

Changed

  • [BREAKING] Remove description variable from article_list.html; simply copy-paste it outside of front matter.
  • [BREAKING] Some CSS variables were renamed.
  • [BREAKING] Some translation strings were renamed.
  • Allow all statements on regular pages; not just archive.
  • Allow navbar/footer to grow past container width.
  • Change default locale to en_US.
  • Countless minor style tweaks.
  • Decrease margin between icon and statement heading.
  • Display all post authors and not only first one.
  • Float tags to the right in the post card and post itself.
  • Make margins/paddings RTL-friendly.
  • Make search bar visually part of the navbar.
  • Rename some color variables.
  • Revamp copy button; instead of putting it on top of the code block, use a header with code language and copy button. It also has a nice copy animation.
  • Revamp the next/previous post nav.
  • Rewrite the demo (#27).
  • Update icons.
  • Use :root instead of html in CSS.
  • Use margins instead of untrimmed spaces.
  • Vertically center custom emojis in comments.

Fixed

  • Disable search input until it's open; prevents ability to write inside it while it's closed.
  • Fix height of instance badge in comments.
  • Fix shadow on hover with transparent images.
  • Fix variety of a11y issues.
  • Improve compatibility with WebKit (Safari, Epiphany).
  • Make Duckquill more XHTML5 compliant (in theory).
  • Trim whitespace in more places.
  • Use button element instead of anchors, fixes keyboard navigation and other issues.

3.2.1 - 2024-06-30

Changed

  • Make search bar pill shaped and same size as navbar.
  • Make statement headings use normal line height.
  • Omit old-style type attributes (type="text/css").
  • Replace Django VSCode extension with Tera in "Tools Used".

Fixed

  • Add missing translation keys for search.

3.2.0 - 2024-06-30

Added

  • Add search functionality (#26).
  • Allow floating images to the start/end of a paragraph.
  • Allow making images full-bleed, useful for article banners.
  • Make accordion slimmer.
  • Make headings slimmer.

Changed

  • [BREAKING] Raise the minimal Zola version to v0.19.0.
  • Make link underlines consistent across browsers.
  • Replace all px values with rem for better responsiveness. E.g the whole UI can be scaled by just changing HTML font size.
  • Tone down the inline code element and checkbox outline.

3.1.0 - 2024-06-27

Added

  • [BREAKING] Add support for multiple feeds introduced in Zola v0.19 (breaks support with Zola v0.18 and lower).
  • Add language meta tag.
  • Allow making posts featured.
  • Support Markdown in copyright text.
  • Support Zola's updated front matter variable.

Changed

  • Add edge highlight to details.
  • Don't use span for post edit time.
  • Improve favicon and scripts loading logic.
  • Make inline code smaller to better match height of regular text.
  • Recolor headings of drafted and archived posts in posts list.
  • Recolor links in the statements.
  • Simplify design of drafted posts.
  • Use default line height for headings.

Removed

  • [BREAKING] Get rid of the config.extra.animated_favicon variable in favor of APNG animated favicon if needed.

Fixed

  • Prevent previous/next post buttons' text being too close to each other.

3.0.0 - 2024-06-20

Added

  • Add "open post" button to comments.
  • Add external link icon to buttons that lead to external sites.
  • Add i18n support (#24).
  • Add language switcher menu in the navbar (enabled automatically if site is available in more than one language).
  • Allow adding per-page/section stylesheets via the extra.stylesheets variable.
  • Allow setting custom copyright text via the new config.extra.footer.copyright config variable.
  • Button-like style for footer's "Powered by" links.
  • Smart syntax highlighting theme loading.

Changed

  • Change the look and structure of footer links.
  • Make dialog buttons use div element instead of p.
  • Make footer background-less.
  • Make styles more consistent and adaptive (replace some pixel-based values with rem).
  • Make styles work with RTL languages.
  • Rewrite additional stylesheets loading logic.
  • Simplify some unnecessarily complex styles.
  • Transition properties have been simplified. The previous approach didn't have any benefits but did cause pain.
  • Tweak padding and spacing of elements; now everything should be pixel-perfect and more well-spaced.

Removed

  • [BREAKING] Get rid of config.extra.date_format and config.extra.comments.locale and replace it
  • Remove some leftover code. with date_format and date_locale inside translation files.

Fixed

  • Add missing labels to some elements.
  • Fix images with transparent class having shadow on hover.
  • Fix the anchor link not being keyboard-accessible.

2.1.0 - 2024-06-13

Added

  • Add active navbar link indicator.
  • Add background color to tables.
  • Add custom focus indicator.
  • Add pretty text wrap.
  • Add section pointing out to Duckquill assets source.
  • Add section with tools used to create Duckquill.
  • Style checkboxes and radios.

Changed

  • [BREAKING] Decouple --primary-color tint from --bg-color.
  • [BREAKING] Drop support for johnvertisements as it's out of scope and can be added back easily.
  • Improve a11y and keyboard navigation.
  • Make source_url and issues_url config variables optional and adapt content if they're not set.
  • Make active header animation less annoying (don't animate to bold).
  • Make blockquotes rounded again.
  • Update the metadata card.
  • Use article element in article.html.
  • Use CSS masks instead of putting SVGs directly into templates.

Fixed

  • Fix "Skip to main content" button preventing clicking on the navbar items on mobile.
  • Fix active state transition for footer socials.
  • Fix the verified checkmark in comments render as emoji.

2.0.0 - 2024-05-20

Added

  • Add EditorConfig (again).
  • Add ability to style images via the URL.
  • Add default value for the comments locale setting.
  • Add emoji "font" and use it on body.
  • Add optional copy code button.
  • Add optional Goatcounter analytics support.
  • Add proper support for heading anchors.
  • Add support for links and socials in footer.
  • Add top margin to Johnvertisement.

Changed

  • [BREAKING] Initial Sass refactoring.
  • [BREAKING] Remove the unused --transition-bezier CSS variable.
  • [BREAKING] Rename --content-width CSS variable to --container-width.
  • [BREAKING] Rename blog.html and blog_list.html templates to article.html and article_list.html respectively.
  • Adjust line height of headings.
  • Change disclaimer heading from plural to singular.
  • Fancier horizontal rule.
  • Improve the look of drafted post entries.
  • Make more elements respect root font-size.
  • Make the navbar non-mandatory (useful for single-page websites).
  • More fail-proof "reduced motion" setting.
  • Move prefers-reduced-motion media query outside of the :root.
  • Only target needed elements for transitioning.
  • Provide all fonts from Modern Font Stacks (don't worry, these are just system font names).
  • Simplify bg-color variable.
  • Tweak active header animation.
  • Tweak heading sizes.

Removed

  • [BREAKING] Get rid of page/site links and replace with external class.

Fixed

  • Fix long post title sneaking under the archived/drafted post badge (#23).
  • Fix the image shortcode having the source link not working.

1.1.0 - 2024-04-29

Added

  • Add drafted and archived badges in the blog list.
  • Add Duckquill version to the stylesheet.
  • Add some bare-bones configuration in theme.toml (fixes failing build with empty user config).
  • Introduce a new configuration variable, extra.comments.locale; used for defining comment timestamp locale.

Changed

  • Change archived icon from warning to archive.
  • Change trigger warning/disclaimer warning icon to bigger, filled one.
  • Get rid of transparency and roundness in apple-touch-icon (as recommended by Apple).
  • Improve code comments in the config.
  • Remove ellipsis form the "Load Comments" button in the comments section.
  • Update copyright year.
  • Update project logo, favicon and metadata card.
  • Use normalize.css by csstools.
  • Use get_url for code highlighting stylesheets.

Removed

  • [BREAKING] Remove support for per-page/section emoji favicon.

Fixed

  • Fix code block mark element having an edge highlight.
  • Fix code blocks having every other line being darker in some complex cases.
  • Fix emoji favicon being cut-off.

1.0.1 - 2024-04-05

Changed

  • Improve comment interactions animation and color (now same as in Tuba).
  • Make blockquote corners sharp.
  • Rewrite README; based on libreivan's one
  • Switch from milliseconds to seconds for transitions and animations.
  • Use button style for issue reporting link on 404.
  • Use warning icon for statements instead of Unicode glyph, this should make it look better no matter what font the system uses (archived, trigger warning, disclaimer).

Fixed

  • Fix capitalization of buttons.
  • Revert 2006d69bd4 since it broke "Go to Top" among others.

1.0.0 - 2024-04-03

Initial release.