[pmwiki-users] RFC: Link titles
Rogutės Sparnuotos
rogutes at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 30 04:58:30 CDT 2011
Petko Yotov (2011-10-30 03:38):
> Hello. I'd like to read your thoughts about an implementation of "tooltip
> titles" of internal links.
>
> The tooltip titles are small boxes appearing when the mouse cursor moves over
> a link or a picture and can give some additional information for the reader
> about the linked site, page, file or image.
>
> I would like to enable this syntax:
>
> [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"]] displays WikiPage
> [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|link text]] displays link text
> [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|+]] displays the title of the page
> [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|#]] a number/reference
>
> 1. This would be consistent with the markup used for tooltip titles of
> embedded pictures which have been available for 6+ years:
>
> http://site/picture.jpg"Tooltip title"
> http://site/picture.jpg"Tooltip title" | caption text
> Attach:picture.jpg"Tooltip title"
>
> 2. This would be consistent with the markup for external links, InterMap links
> and links to attachments:
>
> [[http://pmwiki.org"Tooltip title"|link text]]
> [[Wikipedia:Free_Software"Tooltip title"|link text]]
> [[mailto:address at example.com"Tooltip title"|link text]]
> [[Attach:file.zip"Tooltip title"|link text]]
>
> Titles for external links were captured and processed in this format since
> 2006, but were not displayed in the default installation, although this was
> documented and admins could enable it in config.php. Version 2.2.14,
> released 20 months ago, started displaying the tooltip titles by default.
>
> 3. Also since 2006, PmWiki captures the "..." part in internal links like a
> tooltip title, but instead of using it for a tooltip title, it keeps it in the
> link text (not in the link target page, [[Page"Tooltip title"]] links to
> [[Page]]). Fixing this would require only a few minor changes.
>
> These are the reasons to adopt the [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"]] markup:
> consistency with other tooltip markups, easy to implement, unlikely to break
> existing wikis.
>
>
> There is a reason why not to implement it this way, notably PmWiki.RoadMap
> suggests the format [[Link|text|title]]. In a previous discussion,
> * 3 users+Pm preferred that format
> * 5 users preferred [[Link"Title"|text]] :
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/24697
>
> So I'd like to know what do you think about this feature. Note that
> implementing it will not break existing wikipages - internal link titles never
> worked - but it will allow future improvements of accessibility for those who
> need it.
>
> Petko
>
> Other links:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/RoadMap
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/01172 Add "title" attr. to internal links
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00657 Add "title" attr. to external links
Hi, Petko,
I can't really see how this small and consequent change warrants such a
detailed write-up :) Just go for it!
If quotes weren't already used for external links and images, I would be
in favour of [[Link|text|title]] (which feels like a logical extension to
current link markup). But since quotes are already used for this...
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-- Rogutės Sparnuotos
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