On 01/10/14 01:25, Jackmcbarn wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it, it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool)
Other downside of this would be the performance hit of looking up all those signatures. Some pages have hundreds, if not thousands, of different users' signatures.
Another issue if you try to do something like this is that on some projects, the timestamps are often included inside the signature. And given the visual disparity of the signatures themselves, we also sometimes just look at prominently styled signatures and gauge the general time period from the appearance instead of reading the entire timestamp, since reading visual affordances like that tends to be quicker.
Wrapping the entire thing in a <sig> without trying to do anything overly fancy to the content, however, wouldn't pose any problems here.
-I