On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:18:14AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/16/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)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
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