Rogallo v1.10.0

Rogallo v1.10.0 has been released. This is a pretty small release, with a bug fix to navigation, and an improvement to how navigable Markdown documents are if viewed in the application.

In Rogallo v1.8.0 I made some changes to how Markdown documents are shown, if they're encountered and detected in Geminispace (or any of the other protocol spaces that might let you know the content type of a document). Whereas originally the document was shown in its raw form (marked up with syntax highlighting), v1.8.0 moved to using a fully-rendered form thanks to the internal Markdown widget.

But, as I've mentioned elsewhere in this blog, I wasn't 100% happy with this. The main problem is that the Markdown widget supplied by Textual is pretty unfriendly to keyboard navigation, and I want as much of Rogallo to be navigable with the keyboard as is possible.

To solve this I've created md2gemtext and started using it here in Rogallo. This means that, by default, from now on, any time a Markdown document is received by Rogallo, the content is converted into Gemtext before being displayed. The big advantage here is that links are far easier to see and follow and the document as a whole looks more in keeping with most other pages you'll visit.

I'm sensitive to the fact that some folk might prefer the previous method of viewing Markdown, so this feature is configurable. If you'd prefer the widget-based rendering instead, set this value:

"convert_markdown_to_gemtext": true

to false.

The other change in this release is a fix to how navigation history is saved and restored. For a couple or so weeks now, on occasion, I was finding that when I ran up Rogallo again, navigated from the restored page, and then used Backward, I would end up somewhere else. It was intermittent and, for a while, hard to pin down. Mostly I'd notice this while rapidly closing and opening Rogallo while working on some other feature. Eventually I figured out the sequence of events causing the problem and it was an easy enough fix.