- From: Paul <pjjvande@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:58:40 +-800
- To: "'matthew@tir.com'" <matthew@tir.com>
- Cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> He eats a <A EXPLAIN="A exaprotaplutic hydafolliciplic castiento">quig</A>. >When the reader clicks on "quig" the browser pops up a yellow box >giving the explanation. >Thats a great idea very worth while too!! That would be a definite >plus to HTML!! I would suggest sending your idea directly to Hakon This could also be useful for doing footnotes/endnotes. However, just plain text isn't quite powerful enough in that case. Wouldn't a link be sufficient? Then you can show a picture of a "quig", show pronunciation of the word, etc. If a keyword to tell the browser that the link is an explanation were added, then the browser could deal with opening up a little HTML window above the word clicked. With both of these methods, a glossary of terms could easily be created when the HTML is printed. However, the one with links could be richer. I like the idea though. - Paul
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