This email didn't seem to get any comments, so I'm bring it up again. On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 16:51 +1100, Brett Nash wrote: > Are still missing that I can see... > > May I suggest: > - All tags must be closed (XML(XHTML) like) > - <p> Paragraph > - <strong> Strong text (rarely used) > - <em> Emphasis > - <h[123456]> Headings of various sizes > - <a ref="id"> Where ID is a # of the generic references in the > message. > (So you can refer to fleet names, planet names and race names in the > message in a generic way).
I was thinking something closer to wiki markup. I would prefer something which looks like the message when viewed in plain text (but I can't really come up with any real justification for doing it that way). Being able to drop the formatted string into a HTML browser and see the correct output would be kind of useful, there are a bazillion HTML renders out there. XML is also very clear where as WikiText can be quite ambiguous (then there is the whole escaping problems). I think we should make sure we keep "formatting" (IE CSS) out of the message however. The formatted string describes extra meaning (such as headings and paragraphs), not exactly how it should be displayed. This is because you may be viewing it on a computer, or a mobile, or on some other system. Plus we all know what happened with HTML Mail and similar :) What does everyone else think? Tim Ansell _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
