On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Jason Richey wrote:
I'm impressed...
IIRC, this is the second major content generation system you've put
together. It seems that there are many of these kinds of systems that
may be implemented in the future. SVG graphics, Lilypond music, maps,
TeX, etc. are all things that people would like to see, and are all
the type of thing whose content is based on text.
It seems reasonable to me to say that we shouldn't add new tags for
every one of these systems, but should make them all be defined as
"text based media". Then, they should be editable in their own page,
which should give a radio button indicating which rendering modules
are available (math, lilypond, SVG, map).
I recognize that it is easier to have mathematical equations inline in
most cases instead of giving each it's own page. Perhaps this could
be solved with a tag like <text_based_media:math>\nabla \partial
dx</text_based_media> or the like.
Tags are cheap to add and very easy to use. I don't see how
your solution is going to improve anything. Also, not having everything
in one edit box is quite inconvenient. It already annoys me that
Upload Image isn't linked from an edit page.
I think we should not only add a tag for each new type of content,
but to localize their names ! <math> and <map> are "localized
enough"
for most European languages, but maybe non-European people would
prefer to use some different names, possibly in Han characters.
Any speaker of non-English language here to express their opinion on this ?