Re: [Screem-devel] Upgrading markup

[David A K. <da...@sc...>]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:00, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Does the syntax highlighting allow for setting the background colour
> around some text? Much like a highlighter marker pen? Perhaps that
> could be used... the proprietary tags could be background highlighted.

It does in theory, I've not looked into highlighting much since the
switch to GtkSourceView.

> So a writer could look at a page, quickly seeing the offending tags.
> Right clicking on the deprecated tag would bring up the context menu,
> including a new item "Learn about deprecated tag XYZ", selecting this
> pops up browser on a page on the SCREEM website which discusses the
> tag and the best way to replace it with standards-compliant markup.

ah so something as simple as requesting
www.screem.org/deprecated.php?tag=body&attr=leftmargin if a learn more
item is selected.

> Later on, for some of the simpler cases, it might be possible to have
> screem produce some recommended markup, but just pointers to the best
> practice info on the web would be a great start.

with just a learn more system it shouldn't be too difficult to add, the
syntax highlighting part being the most complex, but doable.



David

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