[PATCH 2/2] ui-shared: emit root-desc-html and repo.desc-html after their text counterparts

[andy at warmcat.com (Andy Green)]

On 06/23/2018 06:28 PM, John Keeping wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 02:46:47PM +0800, Andy Green wrote:
>> Where root-desc and repo.desc are used in the header region, also
>> emit their html counterparts afterwards if they are defined.
>>
>> Where root-desc are repo.desc are used outside the header,
>> eg in the repo list, leave it as it is without adding any
>> related html.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
>> ---
> 
> I think this should be squashed with the previous patch since it makes
> it easier to see what's going on.
> 
> When I read your initial email on this, I thought we could introduce a
> new HTML version of the description and use that *instead of* the plain
> text one if the HTML variant is available.

I actually first implemented just rendering what we have as raw html...

> Having looked at the current implementation of repo->desc, I think
> that's desirable because the reason we don't have a null-check for that
> in the context below is that it will be set to "[no description]" if no
> other value is provided.  If a user has set repo->desc_html, I don't
> think we want to print "[no description]" before showing the HTML
> description!

I take the point, but it turned out there are two separate kinds of 
description here... the text-only, existing one that is used, eg, in the 
list of repos.  And a "functional" HTML part that has buttons or 
whatever specific to the repo and used on the header part.

With just treating them as one, the repo list gained meaningless HTML 
buttons or pictures or whatever decoration was put there.  The repo list 
just wants a short textual description that already exists.  So it 
arrived at this, leave that be, and add an optional HTML decoration part.

-Andy