- From: Devin Bayer <devin@freeshell.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:41:15 -0800
- To: Oskar Welzl <lists@welzl.info>
- CC: Jeremy Rand <jeremy@asofok.org>, www-html@w3.org
Oskar Welzl wrote: > > I have to say, though, that HTML always offered the very generic "show > this content only when activated by the user"-element: > <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.2">Click > here only if you want to read which element it is.</a> > > This is as generic as can be - and as specific as we can allow, > probably. It is not the sophisticated "show within the current > page"-solution you want. It does not fully cover all use cases: > Disturbing medical photos within a scientific text should probably be > shown right within the paragraph that describes them, not on a separate > page. But that would be <show-disturbing-medical-pictures>, not just > <spoiler> ;-) So, basically, the <spoiler> element is already provided with the XLink language and the show="embed" attribute. This is esentialy the equivalent of <a target="inline">. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/#show-att This is much more generic then <spoiler>, which for the most useful applications is incorrectly named. -- Devin Bayer
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