On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:53 AM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: [nested annotations] >> and it would seem particularly odd to allow that in the limited >> space of paper but not the free expanse of hypertext. > > I think one reason why existing content models exclude them is > the problem of how to render them. +1 Hypertext doesn't seem as much a free expanse when you have to start designing a usable page of it; then it becomes dissapointingly reminiscient of paper. :-) Not, of course, that our inability to conceive of how to make it useful should necessarily exclude a feature like this, but does anyone have a suggestion on how to make nested annotations/citations easily readable and usable, and solve the issue of how to number them? _____ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill dwalbert at learnnc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061130/8ed6fd93/attachment.htm>Received on Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:52:00 UTC
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