- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:00:23 +0000
Gervase Markham wrote: > James Graham wrote: >> [1] http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/classes.html > > What a useful URL. Where in that data is the basis for this "hi" or "m" > element which has caused so much discussion recently? Since it is designed as an annotation to a page rather than a part of the markup, I don't think that it would show up in such a study. > As I skim the flood of mail on that subject, I must confess that it > seems that, while prospective use cases can be constructed, and fine > semantic details can be carefully defined, I don't see the web today > crying out for this element, or having to work around its lack. I believe the element was introduced on the basis that there are lots of pages that perform some kind of highlighting, especially of others' content e.g. Google [1] and Yahoo[2] both use this on their cache pages, cam.ac.uk use it on their search pages [3] (as I suspect do any other ultraseek based searches) and popular browser addons seem to offer this functionality e.g. [4]. I certianly agree that there are sufficient real world examples of the proposed semantics to make this element worth consideration. Presumably the benefits of a specific element would include a better accessibility story and CSS-based customisation of the highlighting style. > The current spec is pretty massive, and contains a lot of good stuff. As > the above URL shows, we've covered all the major bases. At this stage, > should we be erring on the side of not increasing the size without an > excellent, real-world reason? I strongly agree with that in general. [1] http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rL_bO-_wkrIJ:www.surtell.com/projects_code_google_highlighting.asp+google+highlighting&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3 [2] http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=highlighting&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=UK&u=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_highlighting&w=highlighting&d=RO_V2-xsOTfc&icp=1&.intl=us [3] http://web-search.cam.ac.uk/query.html?qt=xray [4] http://help.msn.com/resources/targeted/en-US/msnsearchtoolbar_v1/content/SEARCHTBAR_PROC_UseHLV.htm -- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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