- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:54:34 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>
At 22:58 +1000 UTC, on 2007-07-20, Lachlan Hunt wrote: [...] > Syntax highlighting for computer code would only be for > a niche market. I'd estimate that well over 90% of users have no > interest in code, and implementing such a complex system for a minority > is hardly worthwhile. There is no such universal truth. Apple for example seems to have done pretty well for some 30 years, serving a very small minority with a way more complex product. It may be that current browser vendors don't want to do this work; that it'll be a plug-in vendor opportunity. But I think what matters to this WG is whether it is useful for UAs to be capable of recognising syntax and doing something useful with it. If so[*], then HTML should provide authors with the means to mark things up accordingly (perhaps through @syntax). The only real problem I see is the risk of defining @syntax without any certainty that a plug-in will ever be made. [*] Once upon a time programming was a minute niche. These days many millions of 'normal people' are using some sort of computer language. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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