- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:04:37 +1000
- To: "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
I think it's already been mentioned but it sounds like a good thing to take up over at microformats.org: http://microformats.org/wiki/code-brainstorming On 7/24/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: > > 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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