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Re: <spoiler> element

From: Oskar Welzl <lists@welzl.info>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:03:31 +0100
To: Devin Bayer <devin@freeshell.org>
Cc: Jeremy Rand <jeremy@asofok.org>, www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <1133975011.11974.4.camel@erde.hormayrgasse>

Shall we try one more "XLink in XHTML 2.0"?
Count my vote. - But I'm afraid I'm too late. Again. :-(

Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2005, 08:41 -0800 schrieb Devin Bayer:
> 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
> 
Received on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:06:54 GMT
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