Re: Client-side highlighting; tag proposal

>>>>>> "Dave Raggett" <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com> writes:

>> As a result, I am now looking at a way of specifying both the start and
>> ends of highlighted region separately from the document body, e.g. using
>> a single element in the document head, e.g. something like:

>>         <highlight from=3096 until=4013>

> Wouldn't some HyTime-ish way of addressing a highligthed element in the
> document tree be easier to deal with?

> Or, not to be limited to element boundaries: you could identify the
> container element this way, and then just give the byte offset for
> start and stop in the content of the element.

And a good thought at that!

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> tel: +44 117 922 8046 fax: +44 117 922 8924
  Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Bristol BS12 6QZ, United Kingdom

Received on Monday, 20 March 1995 13:07:03 UTC