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Dmitry Verkhoturov 345eee8ba4 Fix two sentences the Firefox row made false
Both predate #2222 and both are on master now, so they contradict the table
that PR added. One said the header flag keeps a reader signed in in any browser
configured to block third-party cookies; the other said the recommended
arrangement survives a reload whatever the browser's third-party cookie policy.
Firefox's block-all setting is the exception to both, because it discards
partitioned cookies as well, and the same table says so three lines away.

Folding them in here rather than leaving them to a separate pass, since this
branch is already editing the file.
2026-08-24 01:05:03 +01:00
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Remark42 site

Sources for remark42.com, built with Hugo.

Requirements

Hugo, the plain build; nothing here needs the extended one. The version the published image builds with is ARG HUGO_VERSION in Dockerfile, and any release at or above it works locally. Nothing updates that pin automatically: Dependabot's docker ecosystem reads FROM references, and the Hugo version is a bare string in a download URL, so bumping it is a manual edit. brew install hugo, or see the installation guide. Nothing else: no Node, no package manager.

Development

hugo server

Serves the site on http://localhost:1313 and rebuilds on change.

Alternatively, without installing Hugo:

docker compose up

Build

hugo --minify --cleanDestinationDir --destination build

Writes the static site to build/, which is what the Docker image serves. --cleanDestinationDir matters on a rebuild: without it a page you deleted, and the fingerprinted stylesheets of earlier builds, stay behind.

Layout

Path Contents
content/ Pages as markdown. content/docs/ is the documentation tree
layouts/ Templates. partials/, shortcodes/ and _markup/ render hooks
assets/ styles.css and the scripts, fingerprinted at build time
static/ Files copied to the site root as-is: favicons, manifest, robots.txt
data/nav.json The documentation sidebar
hugo.toml Site configuration

Writing docs

A page is a markdown file with a title in its front matter. A directory becomes a section when it holds _index.md, and a page that carries its own images is a directory with index.md and the images beside it.

Adding a page to the sidebar means adding an entry to data/nav.json; the paths there are relative to /docs.

Callouts use the note shortcode, which takes the emoji to show:

{{< note "💡" >}}
Anything markdown here.
{{< /note >}}

Two documentation pages are symlinked into the repository as backend/README.md and frontend/apps/remark42/README.md, so moving or renaming content/docs/contributing/backend/index.md or content/docs/contributing/frontend/index.md means repointing those symlinks.

Styling

assets/styles.css is hand-written, with the palette and light/dark values as custom properties at the top. The dark theme is applied by a dark class on <html>, set before first paint by assets/inline.js and toggled by assets/script.js.

Code highlighting is Hugo's built-in Chroma. The rules at the end of the stylesheet come from hugo gen chromastyles --style=github and --style=github-dark.

Dates

The "Updated" line on a documentation page comes from .Lastmod. hugo.toml resolves it through [frontmatter] lastmod, which tries git, then a lastmod in the page's front matter, then the file's modification time; without that chain it would resolve to .Date and every page would read Jan 01, 0001. A deployed page therefore shows the build date, since a checkout does not preserve modification times.

HUGO_ENABLEGITINFO=true hugo gives real per-page commit dates. It is off by default because the image build context is site/ alone, where there is no .git for Hugo to read and it fails rather than falling back.