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> In message <199409210905.KAA25208@curia.ucc.ie>,
> Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> wrote:
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> > and the question was, how many lawyers use HTML?
> >
> >It seems to me to make sense, but is it _needed_ ?
> >
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> I am not a lawyer but a programmer, and I want the feature for
> displaying modifications to code listings. If the < insert > tag
> were available as well as the < strike > tag, browsers could be made able
> to display the old version, the new version, or a combined version "marked up"
> to highlight the changes.
>
Personally, I think <NEW> or <CHANGEBAR> or <INSERT> is more useful
that <STRIKE>. I'ld like both, but if I had to pick only one, then
a way of indicating new material is more necessary. There is an
alternative way of "deleteing" material. Remove it into another
document with a link at the site of the deletion. There's no other
good substitute for <NEW>.
> I can imagine software that would compare two files and create an
> HTML document containing the appropriate STRIKE or INSERT (or whatever they
> might be called) tags.
I can just picture all of the HTML, URI, and other internet draft
revisions in this view, already!
> I'd want the browser to be able to do this under user control.
> For example, X-MOSAIC could have some X-resources and menu items controlling
> the display modes.
It's always nice to be able to control these things, but you have to
make room for minimal (and fixed) presentations too.
I'ld *like* to see italics and changebars for new material, and
dark-grey background (more readable than an actual cross-thru)
for <STRIKE>, but a simple text only ">" (insert) or "<" (remove)
in the margin ought to be a possible presentation.
- Steve Majewski (804-982-0831) <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU>
- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics