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+# Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin
+
+## Unimplemented
+
+* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter
+  the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post.
+
+  > I'm not sure this is so useful? On Livejournal titles are allowed on
+  > comments, but very rarely used (and indeed usually not very useful);
+  > it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-)
+  > --[[smcv]]
+
+## Won't fix
+
+* Because IkiWiki generates static HTML, we can't have a form inlined in
+  page.tmpl where the user fills in an entire comment and can submit it in
+  a single button-press, without being vulnerable to cross-site request forgery.
+  So I'll put this in as wontfix. --[[smcv]]
+
+  > Surely there's a way around that?
+  > A web 2.0 way comes to mind: The user clicks on a link
+  > to open the comment post form. While the nasty web 2.0 javascript :)
+  > is manipulating the page to add the form to it, it looks at the cookie
+  > and uses that to insert a sid field.
+  > 
+  > Or, it could have a mandatory preview page and do the CSRF check then.
+  > --[[Joey]]
+
+* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
+  pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
+  Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
+  would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
+  being posted.
+
+  > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
+  > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
+  > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
+  > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
+  > mouths :-) )
+  >
+  > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
+  > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
+  > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
+  > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
+  > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
+
+  > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
+  > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
+  > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Done
+
+* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
+  should probably be shared
+
+  > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
+  > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
+  > complex. --[[smcv]]
+
+  > There's still goto. You have a branch for that. --[[Joey]] 
+
+  >> Now merged --[[smcv]]
+
+* The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address
+  as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs
+
+  > Done in my comments git branch, at least as a mockup (using the (?),
+  > {x} and {*} smileys for anonymous, OpenID and login respectively).
+  > --[[smcv]]
+
+  >> I've improved this to use independent icons from the wikiicons
+  >> directory (untested!) --[[smcv]]
+
+  >>> The new code produces links like /wikiisons/openid.png, which
+  >>> fail if ikiwiki is not at the root of the web server. --[[Joey]]
+
+  >>>> Sorry, I should have spotted that (the assumption failed on my demo
+  >>>> site, but the push to that site was when I was on the way out, so I
+  >>>> didn't have time to investigate). As a note for other ikiwiki hackers,
+  >>>> I should have used
+  >>>> `<img src="<TMPL_VAR NAME=BASEURL>wikiicons/openid.png" />`. --[[smcv]]
+
+  >>> I got to wondering if the icons are needed. On my comments branch
+  >>> (not master), I've dropped the icons and info can be seen by hovering
+  >>> over the author's name. Idea being that you probably don't care how
+  >>> they authenticated unless something is weird, and in that case you
+  >>> can hover to check. Does that make sense, should I merge it?
+  >>> --[[Joey]]
+
+  >>>> Yeah, go ahead. I preferred my layout with the author before the
+  >>>> comment - perhaps that's Livejournal's influence :-) - but I can always
+  >>>> edit the templates for my own site. As long as the default is something
+  >>>> reasonable and both layouts are possible, I don't really mind.
+  >>>> Minimizing the number of "resource" files in the basewiki also seems
+  >>>> a good goal. --[[smcv]]
+
+* Previews always say "unknown IP address"
+
+  > Fixed in my comments branch by commits bc66a00b and 95b3bbbf --[[smcv]]
+
+* The Comments link in the "toolbar" is to `index.html#comments`, not the
+  desired `./#comments`
+
+  > Fixed in my comments branch by commit 0844bd0b; commits 5b1cf21a
+  > and c42f174e fix another `beautify_urlpath` bug and add a regression test
+  > --[[smcv]]
+
+
+* Now that inline has some comments-specific functionality anyway, it would
+  be good to output `<link rel="comments">` in Atom and the equivalent in RSS.
+
+  > Fixed in my comments branch by d0d598e4, 3feebe31, 9e5f504e --[[smcv]]
+
+
+* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID
+
+  > Done in my comments git branch --[[smcv]]
+
+  > Not seeing it there, which branch? --[[Joey]]
+
+  >> Bah, git push --all is not the default... 'comments' branch now (I've also rebased it).
+  >> Sorry, I'm on mobile Internet at the moment... --[[smcv]]
+
+  >>> merged by [[Joey]] in commit 0f03af38 --[[smcv]]
+
+* Should the comments be visually set off more from the page above?
+  Rather than just a horizontal rule, I'm thinking put the comments
+  in a box like is used for inlined pages.
+
+  > I did put them in a box in the CSS... I agree the default template
+  > could do with visual improvement though. --[[smcv]]
+
+  >> I'll consider this solved by [[Joey]]'s changes. --[[smcv]]
+
+* One can use inline to set up a feed of all comments posted to any page.
+  Using template=comment they are displayed right. Only problem
+  is there is no indication in that template of what page each comment in the
+  feed is a comment on. So, if a comment is inlined into a different page,
+  I think it should show a link back to the page commented on.
+  (BTW, the rss feed in this situation seems ok; there the link element
+  points back to the parent page.
+
+  > done --[[Joey]]
+
+* One of Joey's commit messages says "Not ideal, it would be nicer to jump to
+  the actual comment posted, but no anchor is available". In fact there is
+  an anchor - the `\[[_comment]]` preprocessing wraps the comment in a `<div>`
+  with id="comment_123" or something. I'll fix this, unless Joey gets there
+  first. --[[smcv]]
+
+  > done --[[Joey]]
+
+* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean
+  up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment
+  that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of
+  course).
+
+  > Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be
+  > a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]]
+
+  > Here, FWIW, is the first ikiwiki comment spam I've seen:
+  > <http://waldeneffect.org/blog/Snake_bite_information/#blog/Snake_bite_information/comment_1>
+  > So that took about 10 days...
+  > --[[Joey]] 
+
+  >> Implemented in my 'comments' branch, please review. It turns out
+  >> [[plugins/remove]] is happy to remove internal pages, so it was quite
+  >> easy to do. --[[smcv]]
+
+  >>> done --[[Joey]]