On 2022/08/19 12:54:10 -0600, Tracey Emery <tracey@traceyemery.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 07:30:59PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> > as all the tragic stories goes, it all started with a simple goal of
> > making the W3C validator happy and endend up in pain and (html)
> > escaping.
> > 
> > The w3c validator complained about three things:
> > 
> >  - invalid target=_sotd in a link
> >  - unexpected `alt' attribute on some links
> >  - missing lang on the html tag.
> > 
> > the last one is questionable: we don't really know in what language
> > the commits will be (especially when they don't need to be in the same
> > language!) but still i think that since the whole UI is in english
> > there's not much harm in setting lang=en.
> > 
> > Then, I saw a few places where we forgot to escape some strings and
> > re-cheked all the fcgi_printf calls.
> > 
> > So, I'd like to propose diff below.  it's actually two commit
> > together, I'm bundling them here because it's easier.  It fixes the
> > issue reported by the w3c validator and escapes all the potential
> > unsafe strings I've found.
> > 
> > There's still a bit that's missing and it's properly URL-escape links,
> > which is different from the html escaping, but i'd like to address
> > that in a follow up commit.  gotwebd needs to learn how to
> > percent-decode querystrings too.
> > 
> > I have this diff on my instance, now I can render 'funny' trees with
> > files like '<script>' :)
> > 
> > https://git.omarpolo.com/?index_page=0&path=testing.git&action=tree&commit=78397ac198dbef68c371cef13a4fb986ff93fe34&headref=HEAD
> > 
> > (note that the first two links don't work because of the escaping)
> > 
> > thoughts/ok?
> 
> Ok, although I'm not sold on the lang=en.

i wasn't 100% sold on it neither, so i've backed out that change.