Rogallo v0.8.0 is now available. This release includes a small bug fix, a big change to how external links and unhandled MIME types are dealt with, and a further improvement to link navigation.
First the big change: hand-off of unhandled content and trust. Until now, if Rogallo was met with a URI it didn't know how to handle, or met with a MIME type it isn't designed to deal with, it would simply hand it off to the browser in your environment. This is generally handy as it means that, when you're browsing gemtext content, if you meet a link that takes you to a conventional website, the link will (normally) be opened in your browser.
There are, of course, any number of schemes that form part of a URI. While Rogallo might commonly be handing off http and https URIs, there's no reason why it can't be handing off a finger or a mailto or whatever. Or, potentially, something a wee bit more dodgy like a javascript URI. While some web browsers don't allow that sort of thing by default (Safari, for example, blocks it unless configured otherwise), others might, and this could result in a nasty surprise.
So now Rogallo has a confirmation step that lets you allow a scheme this once, this and every subsequent time, or just cancel out.
By default the trusted schemes (the ones you say "always" on) are saved in a trusted_schemes file in the data directory.
Similar to the above: if, via a URI that Rogallo can handle, it meets a MIME type it can't handle, it will also pass it off to your operating system. I've added similar protection there too.
In this case any MIME types marked as trusted are dropped into a trusted_mime_types file in the data directory.
If such a MIME type is allowed, it is passed off to your operating system to handle. If you'd like to tell Rogallo to try and internally handle a MIME type, you can set that by configuring the displayable content types.
I feel these changes help remove any possible footguns previously caused by unquestionably handing off URIs to the wider environment.
Another change I've made is to add even more link navigation. This sort of follows on from yesterday's release where I added labelled jumps to links. Again, the usual method of moving between links is to use Tab and Shift+Tab. The problem with those keys is they navigate you through all widgets in the UI that can receive focus. So, if you keep tapping Tab, you'll navigate out of the viewer and into the next available widget, once you reach the last link.
With this release I've added some extra keys which can be used to constantly cycle around the links while you're inside the viewer. These are:
- Left, Shift+Up, L to go backwards through the links.
- Right, Shift+Down, l to go forwards through the links.
While these might not be to everyone's taste (I'm already getting very used to using Left and Right), they do add another set of options for link navigation.
The final change is a simple bug fix, where the command line history simply wasn't being saved and loaded correctly. From now on it should save correctly and allow navigation of the history using the cursor keys.
With these changes in place, I feel I'm actually getting close to bumping up to a v1.0.0 release. While there are still things I want to add (there are currently a handful of TODO items in the issues), I see these as nice-to-have items that I want to do later on, rather than as must-have items that preclude considering Rogallo a viable daily-driver.
I'll see how the next day or so goes.