- From: Arnoud <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:35:34 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <m0uYuA4-0002GFC@bcs>, Melt van Schoor <Hermanus@iafrica.com> wrote: > This is probably not new, but has anyone ever thought about glossarry-style > hyperlinks, where a certain term might be explained in, say a pop-up box? Yes. And it has already been suggested in the now-expired HTML 3.0 draft. It was called the "footnote" tag, <FN>, which was supposed to be rendered as a pop-up box when the link was selected: PGP uses the <A HREF="#idea">IDEA block cypher</A> for conventional encryption. lots of bla... lots of bla... lots of bla... <FN ID="idea">IDEA is a block cypher with a 128 bits key. The same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the data. No attacks other than brute force exist against it.</FN> > He eats a <A EXPLAIN="A exaprotaplutic hydafolliciplic castiento">quig</A>. It does not allow you to include markup in the explanation. This would make it as much a pain as <IMG ALT>. Galactus - -- To find out more about PGP, send mail with HELP PGP in the SUBJECT line to me. E-mail: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl - Please PGP encrypt your mail if you can. Finger galactus@turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl for public key (key ID 0x416A1A35). Anonymity and privacy site: <http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAgUBMdGOqDyeOyxBaho1AQHtogQAr+fCdwe9YgXUOz8uATORTsj2gGLa3XD3 vdWyoNnY53YZRCmg8Qy/Qwb6F6LTPNbovZlb6hTirHaKdh3r1GkJIcYnNABzCeNV c+w4tWzMv9qKShb7GaLREXMHLj4vWeJptnKI5QeLurMcR5QWxyV8rvJzt0ZAdBjX 39HZouCIRAw= =BJCr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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