Remove shortcode/figure.html

[stumbo]

The Docsy figure shortcode, at this point in time, doesn't appear to add any value over the figure implementation provided within Hugo. In fact, the Hugo implementation is more robust providing support for both page and global resources.

On one of my pages, in the website I help maintain (Interlisp.org), I have an image embedded in a the page. This works fine on the production website but breaks on my staging/test site,stumbo.github.io/InterlispDraft.github.io due to changes in the baseURL. I'd like to replace the raw img with the figure shortcode to make it more robust. However, it fails.

In my investigation I found that the vanilla Hugo figure shortcode works but the Docsy override fails. From what I can tell, the Docsy version was put in place several years ago to make up for shortfalls in Hugo's earlier versions of figure. Since then, it appears, Hugo has continually updated the figure shortcode and obviated the need for the Docsy version.

While I realize I can solve my issue by dropping the vanilla Hugo figure shortcut into my codebase, a better approach would to be to remove the Docsy one, unless there is a specific need it still fills.

Is there any specific need that the Docsy figure shortcode still addresses? And, if not, what is the path to deprecating and removing it?

[deining]

Is there any specific need that the Docsy figure shortcode still addresses?

No, I don't think so.

And, if not, what is the path to deprecating and removing it?

I authored PR #2175 in order to push things further and get the shortcode removed.

[deining]

With PR #2175 merged, we can close this discussion.