- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:22:56 +0100
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:23:33 +0100, Leons Petrazickis <leons.petrazickis at gmail.com> wrote: > In the Western world, the standard for highlighting is a neon yellow > background. I submit that a much better name for <m> is <hi> > (<hilite>, <highlite>, <highlight>). People don't necessarily mark > text much -- if anything, "mark" implies underlining, circling, and > drawing arrows -- but they do highlight. In university, I often saw > students perched with their notes and a highlighter, marking important > sections. The semantic meaning is to draw attention for later review. > > The default styling of <hi> would be a neon yellow background. > Google's choice of #ffff66 could well be suitable. A very good idea. I support it. On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:51:23 +0100, James Graham <jg307 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Sure. But what useful features could a general purpose UA implement if this > semantic information is made avaliable to it? 1. Offer navigation (next/previous) amonng highlighted regions in the document. (Probably only amongh <hi> sharing the same class.) 2. Turn highligting on/off. Google currently implements it thorough page reload (serves a version without highligting), but this could be done client-side. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexeyf at opera.com> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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