- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:12:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Justin Lebar wrote: > >> > >> That being said, inline spec comments sound interesting. > > > I'm not quite sure what the UI would look like, but if anyone has any > > ideas, feel free to e-mail me directly and we can figure something > > out. (This would be exceedingly useful once we're in last call in a > > few months.) > > Other people have probably pointed this out, but the hg book has inline > comments. http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/preface.html That's an interesting approach, but I don't think it would work well with the HTML5 spec -- we probably need a mechanism that feeds into the current system (i.e. sends an e-mail) rather than annotating the document itself, and the document is in too much flux to track where the annotations go -- even the current annotation system (the boxes on the left) have been problematic in this regard, and they're generally only anchored to sections, which are more stable than paragraphs. Also, I fear what it would do to the spec to add a link to every paragraph! :-) I think we need an approach that doesn't involve in-flow links... I'm just not sure what the right solution is. Maybe alt-double-clicking should show a menu with two options, "submit comment here" or "change section status"? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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