On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:18:14AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/16/07, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
There was a fairly extensive discussion on this list a couple weeks ago -- which I thought you had participated in -- about microformats (I think the buzzword was) which amounted to "custom-made attributed to HTML tags which would be usable for semantic extraction, but ignored by browsers".
I'm sure I've never heard that term before, but fortunately [[Microformats]] got me up to speed. (Is there anything Wikipedia can't do :))
This topic, and the approach you and I forsee, is sort of an offshoot thereof...
I guess. What would the syntax look like to the user?
Well, one suggested solution was piping the
==section header tag|secthead==
but while I understand why that is most intiutive to people who *get* Wikipedia, I suspect it's a bit too breakable when confronted with people who don't--and there are a lot more of them. So I like a template or parser function that takes an argument and expands to the appropriate hidden markup to support the pointer, myself.
Cheers, -- jra