- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 11:45:06 -0500
- To: jenglish@crl.com
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
>> <MARK TYPE=HIGHLIGHT START=123 END=333> >> >That is exactly what's in the latest HTML 3 draft, >(except TYPE is named CLASS). START is an ID attribute, >and END is an IDREF. MARK elements must occur in pairs. >> Ideas? The above does not feel good to me, and neither do PI's or >> paired tags. > >What does not feel good about it? I think it's a very >good approach. Paired elements like the above mean that you have to maintain more state when you are rendering a document (ie. you have to traverse the entire document tree preceeding the current element, whereas with container based control, you only need to traverse the ancestors leading up to a node). The reason I don't like word offsets of for much the same reason. This is not much of a problem with small documents, but for optimising the redisplay of large documents, it is a very important issue. This could also be important for optimising redisplay when scrolling. One fellow mentioned that we need a way to solve both the highlighting, and the annotation problem. I think using parts from HyTime Location Module, or at least concepts from it, combined with a multipart MIME message might be the best way to go (and it's applicable to other media types!!!). One way or another, specifying, and implementing, such functionality will cause some pain.
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