- From: Mirsad Todorovac <tm@rasips2.rasip.etf.hr>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:48:29 +0100 (MET)
- To: connolly@beach.w3.org (Daniel W. Connolly), www-talk@w3.org, uri@bunyip.com
Dan writes: > > These are interesting ideas, and they come up from time to time > on this list, but they don't seem to merit deployment for one > reason or another. I'd like to see folks hack up support for them > and tell us how it goes. Heck -- maybe Henrik will hack them into > the library! > > > 1. URL doc.html##123 should mean: > > "Start display of rendered document at line 123 of resulting > > document text (not the source). > > Err.. what's the definition of a line in HTML? > > In plain text, it's much more clear. Probably it makes sense only there. > > In any case I'd suggest something a little more mnemonic, like maybe: > > foo.txt#line=123 > > Of course that takes the = character away from the anchor name syntax, > but I for one won't miss it. > > doc.html#count=3;element=H2 It gives me some feeling of uncertanty. It puts a hard task on a parser, to decide whether it is anchor name or line addressing. With ## there are far less things to worry about. > > 3. URL: doc.html##/foobar/[n] > > > > "Set top of display to the first [n-th] occurance of word > > (desirable regexp) 'foobar' inside rendered doc.html". > > doc.html#search=foobar > doc.txt#search=foobar > doc#count=3;search=foobar Dunno. ``;'' is used e.g. in ftp scheme to designate type of file. It would probably create a lot of confusion if we use it here. Maybe use of comma sign would be better? > > >Please note use of #/ extension in this case: > > I think you will lose badly if you attempt to use / in fragment > identifiers. How about \/ , like in lots of programs where / is used to delimit search pattern ?? -- Mirsad
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