On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, BobV <b...@google.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Johnson <br...@google.com> wrote: > > Sounds pretty useful. We should lock its behavior down more, though. > Maybe > > Locking it down is just going to get in the way because we can't cover > all of the types of messages that you'd necessarily want to be able to > convey in tag attributes.
I may not be thinking about the spectrum clearly enough. Do you have some examples in mind? It seems like the 99% case is people saying "Don't use this anymore; use <that> instead." > Developers will just have to be judicious > in their use of a free-form message; it more-or-less works for > JavaDoc. (tangent: ModuleDoc?) In javadoc, it has always seemed like an un-usefully underconstrained tag. Everbody says exactly the same things, phrased every-so-slightly differently. > If you want to lock it down, the most useful thing to be able to > specify is a URL with additional information. I don't think that handles the most common use case, though. Wouldn't the most common thing be, "Don't use this; use <that>"? Most people will go to the absolute minimum trouble necessary, so it's unlikely people would be included to create an actual URL to point to. (IMHO) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---