On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
The "?" links are another matter: I can't think of a clean way to offer both options; i.e., links on the whole word with some style, or links only around the "?".
We had this working on phase 2. Something like:
<span class="newlinkedge">[</span> <a class="newlink" href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">Page title</a> <span class="newlinkedge">]<a href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">?</a></span>
So for question-mark links the class "newlinkedge" was defined as visible and "newlink" defined to inherit surrounding color/style instead of looking linking; while for red links the class "newlinkedge" was defined as invisible and "newlink" as red underlined.
The only change is in the stylesheet, which is generated or selected depending on user options (with the behavior change that the titles of question-mark links can be clicked; a behavior whose loss was bemoaned by some when we switched to phase 3.)
There are of course other options that affect content, particularly the TeX-related selections.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)