doc/plugins/recentchangesdiff/Discussion.mdwn

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+couldn't the diff be displayed as a popup? right now it's too bad because the diff is actually in the page, generated and downloaded, but the user can't see it. I have tried to address the issue by adding stuff to the change.tmpl template, but I may be missing something - and it doesn't quite look right:
+
+    --- /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates/change.tmpl    2011-09-05 15:14:19.000000000 -0400
+    +++ templates/change.tmpl       2011-10-11 13:04:37.704346964 -0400
+    @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
+     </TMPL_LOOP>
+     </div>
+     <TMPL_IF DIFF>
+    +<a href="#" onClick="document.getElementByClass('diff').style = 'block'">[[show diff|wikiicons/diff.png]]</a>
+     <div class="diff">
+     <pre>
+     <TMPL_VAR DIFF>
+
+There are a few things wrong with this:
+
+ 1. I don't like the hardcoded javascript in there, we should use [[plugins/toggle]] or something, but i am not sure how to make the this plugin depend on toggle, or if it is desirable. 
+ 2. it doesn't work at all: first it doesn't actually "toggle" and second the javascript somehow gets filtered out of the resulting HTML so we don't even see it
+ 3. if the diffurl parameter is set in the template, we'd actually see two sets of glasses, which is silly. i tried moving the diff button upwards into the PAGES loop, but there the diffurls are file-specific, which also seem quite silly
+
+I am looking for guidance on how to improve and fix this now. --[[anarcat]] 2011-10-11