Re: Add hyperlinks capability


Subject: Re: Add hyperlinks capability
mailto@christian-herbst.de
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 16:47:04 CDT


On 1 Jun 2001, at 12:37, rms@greymalkin.yi.org wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:52:03AM +0200, mailto@christian-herbst.de wrote:
> > There has been *a lot of* discussion about the best fitting kind of
> > HTML (plain? which css? JavaScript or not?) cause of differing
> > browsers capabilities.
>
> Spit spec compliant xhtml, and it will display prperly in any xhtml compliant browser.

<ironic>Fortunately every browser out there is xhtml compliant and
every church secretary would be pleased to install an other browser
when he's looking for help.</ironic>

> We have more things to do than supporting crappy browser xhtml implementation.

That's totally right. Therefore it would be very nice if AW could be
it's own help file viewer.

> although it may not seem much of an important feature (and
> maybe it isn't) it's an insightfull one, imho.

Actually I'm thinking of implementing the hyperlink feature. But
before I start with it I would like to know whether such a feature is
wanted or not. I'm just asking because there has recently been a
long thread about calculation in AW...

> BTW, xhtml is backwards compliant with html.

I know.

regards,

Christian (off for a long weekend now :-)



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