Re: [Phpwiki-talk] NewTextFormattingRules, DynamicTextFormattingHelp

[Matti A. <ma...@ik...>]

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On Friday 08 November 2002 18:46, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
> > I'm still wondering about the anchor generation, however...
>
> Either of those suggestions is certainly doable, but my concerns are:
>   1. They can lead to very unnecessarily long anchor names.
>   2. Duplicate anchor names are possible.
>   3. It might be too much magic.
>
> Example:
>
> !! #[References]
>
> is explicit.  Everyone can see that there's something special
> about "References" (even if they're not sure what it is.)

Yes, but the problem is, that without automatic anchoring you'd have to
edit the page to be able to link to it. That'd be a problem if you
didn't have permissions to do so...

However, I agree with your points 1 and 2, although duplicate anchor
names might not be that dangerous. Shit happens, as they say...

> Upon second thought, maybe the old-style ''emphasis'' __isn't__
> deprecated.
>
:-)

Technical side-note: the implementation regexps would probably be much
more robust if the tag characters were doubled: **bold**, __italic__,
==monospace==. But I really don't have strong feelings about those.

> Other concerns are: lynx, links, emacs-w3, etc...
> Not a big deal

True, but all of them are used by advanced users, who probably can deal
with both help texts being displayed at the same time. The real problem
are casual users. There still might be some IE 4 and NN 4 users in
corporate environments, and poor support for them might be a problem
for PhpWiki adoption. Sigh, maybe I should implement support for
them... Or what do you say? (Please, tell me they're not necessary.)

m.

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