blog/CHANGELOG.md

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

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.
• Move article list to a partial.
• 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

• Fix the Feed button in multilingual sites (https://codeberg.org/muelsyse/pages/issues/12).
• Remove left/right margins from <figure>.

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.