Re: Xaraya database

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:39:55 +0000, Marjolein Katsma wrote:

> Jason Judge wrote in news:bh0hbp$hk3$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]:
> 
>> Just a note for your autolinks notes: the target drop-down will be
>> removed soon, and will become a part of the autolinks types. Each
>> autolinks type will have its own set of DD properties, which will feed
>> into a template that formats that autolinke type. As an admin, you can
>> then choose whether you want a drop-down of '_blank' or '', or a
>> free-format text field that takes a window name. There is no need to
>> rewrite autolinks just yet, as these changes are in hand.
> 
> Jason, that sounds interesting.
> 
> I'd been thinking (thinking way ahead) of making my own variant of 
> autolinks so it would handle not only 'web links' but do a conversion 
> for abbreviations and acronyms into appropriate <abbrev> and <acronym> 
> tags as well. Is anything like that forseen already? The mechanism would 
> be essentially the same as that for autolinks, only you'd need to 
> specify whether to generate a <a>, <abbrev> or <acronym> tag (with 
> appropriate attriutes, of course). i.e., each keyword would need 
> specification of what type of tag to generate from the source.

that sounds like a very handy improvement to autolinks. The acronym and
abbrev tags are finally growing in popularity so it would be nice to
support them.

miko