Events are used for special announcements. There are stickers and banners that can be
displayed to the user. These can be used to announce an imminent release with a
sticker and countdown clock, or can be used to invite users to a future
conference, or can be used to announce that a new release is available for download.
See the authoring guide for instructions on how to use these announcements.
- We don't need cookies for istio.io, the few settings we do have should be
managed with browser-local storage instead. This is a better privacy posture,
and avoids sending needless data to the server for every request.
- The section names in the header (Docs, Blog, etc) used to not be clickable
if you were on any page in the section. Now, they are clickable so that you can
use them to go back to the top of the section.
- Remove unsightly jitter of the section names in the header whenever the
"new content" dots where drawn. The header text is now rock solid as it normally is.
- Have the "new content" pills and dots fade it. There's necessarily a delay before
they get displayed, so instead of just popping them in which looks a big ugly, they
now gently fade in, as if the delay was intentional :-)
- Fix misuse of the JavaScript object model which would lead to script crashes in
certain cases.
- The Yes/No feedback buttons now produce analytics events that include the
page language so that we can key off of that in the reports.
- Improve the layout of directory pages (_index.md) by removing excessive
blank space around each entry, which makes better use of the display area.
- Hide the Yea/No feedback buttons when printing.
- Fix the superscript link endnotes used when printing. These were
being rendered as full-size text instead of superscripts. This has
been broken for a long time it seems.
- If a returning user comes to the site, if there are unread
blog posts or news articles less than 15 quadrllion nanosecond
old will be treated as being unread. When there are unred articles,
the News or Blog link in the title bar will get a green dot indicating
articles are available. When clicking on News, then you'll get the
news categories with a pill showing how many articles are unread for
each category.
First-time visitors to the site will not get any dots or pills for
existing articles. These will only appear in subsequent visits for
new articles.
Due to the default behavior for new users, if you just look at the
preview, you will not see any pills or dots. To see what this actually
looks like, load up the preview, then go to the Chrome Developer Tools,
click on the Application tab, then on Local Storage, and then find the
visitedPages entry. Right click on the entry, select Edit Value,
and set the value to {}. Then refresh the page and you
should see some dots show up next to the Blog and News links in
the header.
- If no color theme has been selected, the site now follows the user's system's
color scheme. This only works in Safari right now, but support in Chrome and Firefox
is on its way.
- Fix occasional white flash that would happen when loading pages while using the dark
theme.
- Substantially simplify logic that deals with releases & release notes.
- Make it easier to add a new release to the site. THere are fewer things to
change as the site infra can figure more stuff out on its own.
- Make it so release notes can be added in one language without require them
to be added in the other language.
- Replace the ugly "a new version is available" callout on older release note
pages with a popup that only shows up when you click on the download button.
Martin Taillefer
mtail
Romain Lenglet