Subject: Re: XS: needed features? From: lee@xxxxxx Date: Fri, 23 May 97 20:33:46 EDT |
> On a first read of Jon's XS draft, two things jump out at me: the > `score' flow object class and the `sideline' flow object class. Both > of these strike me as being used principally in print media. Does > `scoring' make sense in your Web browser? Do `change bars' make sense? > Are they not a mild complication which doesnt buy very much? Well, SoftQuad Panorama supports change bars today, and at least some people seem to like the feature :-) I'll have to read the spec on scoring before I can comment on that, as I don't have a copy here. Really, I'd like to apply change bars to spans that are the result of following links, I think, rather than using markup within the document. In general, the ability to apply styles to selected regions of a document seems important to me. For example, if I add an annotation, perhaps I want a little picture of a pencil in the margin. I'd like to mark link ends (whatever they end up being called -- I still like "airports" best) with little icons too, perhaps, or underline them or whatever. In HTML, the starting point of a link is always marked explicitly with SGML containment, so that applying a blue underline is easy, but in XML this isn't the case, and another mechanism will be needed. Of course, if the style sheets can't do it, visual browsers will have to have their own way of indicating linkness. Note that MSIE now supports HTMLish markup to change the shape of the mouse pointer when it's within a specific element... Lee DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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