Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-01-01 à 19:02, Andrea Censi a écrit :


> Happy new year!

>

> This is the revised revised proposal:

>

> http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.md

> http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html

> http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.pdf

>

> I wait for comments.


Overall seems good, but I want to comment on this:


> Default ALD for classes of elements. For example, an header of  

> level 2 inherits automatically the attributes of {header2}, if it  

> is defined.


I don't see the point for such a feature. Applying the same  
attributes to all elements of the same name is a bad markup style,  
especially if it's a class attribute like in your example. If the  
reason you do this is to facilitate styling, why not just create a  
rule "h1" or "p" in your stylesheet that applies to all elements with  
that name?

Also, your new proposal for a span element:

     [special words]{#myspan}

seems to me even more ambiguous than the previous one using braces  
instead of square brakets since John Gruber wants to introduce the  
[single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a  
future version of Markdown.[^1] Your span syntax, would become  
exactly the same as a shortcut reference-style link with a custom  
attribute.

[^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style  
link syntax is currently implemented in the latest 1.0.2 betas and  
present but commented out in the current PHP Markdown & Extra releases.


Michel Fortin
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