Rogallo v2.3.0 is now available. The main addition to this release is support for the Titan Protocol.
First up, there's a small fix. The other day I discovered Scriptonite. While looking at the examples I noticed none of them worked with Rogallo. This struck me as odd because the whole point of Scriptonite is that it all happens on the server-side; nothing on the client-side should affect how well it works.
It turns out that Wasat had a bug when it came to slicing and dicing Gemini URIs, where parts of a URI that followed a ; were being lost. Somewhat amusingly, I didn't even need to do any work on a fix because it had already been taken care of in the branch that existed to support Titan.
The point here being: as of v2.3.0, Rogallo now works fine with the Scriptonite examples.
As I mentioned, the main change in this release is support for the Titan protocol. It's been on the TODO list for a wee while, partly because I was struggling to follow the idea of it, and also partly because I'd not played with it and just didn't see the purpose. The other day I sat down and properly dived in and it finally all clicked.
With v2.3.0, if you now visit a titan:// URI, you will be presented with a rich input dialog. It is a tabbed view, with one tab being for text input/upload:
and the other being a file attachment and upload:
As per the Titan specification, there is support for setting the MIME type for the attached data. If using the text view, this will always be set to text/plain. If using a file attach/upload, you have full control over it, but it will default to the best guess based on the file selected.
There is also support for entering an upload token.
As well as supporting the core Titan specification, I've also added support for the proposed ;edit extension. This means that it is safe to enable Titan-based editing on bbs.geminispace.org, making it easier to modify text you've already written.
One final change in this release of Rogallo also relates to user input. I've given the Gemini-based input dialog an overhaul. Originally this was, by design, as simple and as bare-bones as possible. It was simply a free-text input box that would grow as you added lines, and the prompt from the server was shown as a title in the border of that box. While testing out editing on BBS, I realised that this doesn't always work so well; most of the time the prompt would get truncated.
Not a great user experience. The redesigned input box works more or less the same, but now ensures that the prompt is fully visible.
Between this change and the new Titan edit/upload dialog, I feel Rogallo is now in a good position to act as a near-zero-compromise daily driver when it comes to wandering around the small web.
I guess adding tabs will get it closer to zero. Perhaps in-terminal image viewing. Okay, perhaps a sprinkle of http(s) support too? Also...