Comments and Ratings

[mjakeman]

The user should be able to view comments and extension ratings as part of the search results.

Displaying the comments will be quite tricky. We need a way to either render HTML or (ideally) convert it to Pango markup.

Investigate whether there is a way to display simple HTML markup without using webkit.

[mjakeman]

An update on the status of this issue.

• All of the web-related work to retrieve comment data is implemented in the web-refactor branch (needs a rebase).
• The main issue now involves displaying an HTML subset
• I am working on a rich text component that will hopefully support both display and editing of rich text
• Is there an opportunity to use this inside extension-manager?
• Furthermore, can we collaborate with upstream extensions-web to allow authoring comments in-app?
  • This would require authentication support
  • Can we benefit from librest?

[mjakeman]

As of PR mjakeman/text-engine#3, my rich text component now supports enough of HTML to display comments from extensions.gnome.org. Comments and reviews will therefore be part of the 0.3 release 🥳.

As a quick demonstration, the following messy HTML snippet:

<p>There was an Old Man with a beard\nWho said, &quot;It is just as I feared!</p><p> &gt; Two Owls and a Hen,<br> &gt; Four Larks and a Wren,</p><p>Have all built their nests in my beard!&quot;</p>

Is successfully rendered as follows, with support for wrap-around if necessary.

[mjakeman]

Work-in-progress support for comments: