[pmwiki-users] RFC: Link titles

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 01:08:53 CST 2011


I support this proposal, but would like to ask for an additional feature,
a default way of making the tool tip be the page summary,
eg
  [[WikiPage"$"]] displays WikiPage and tool tip is the page's summary

thanks

Simon


On 30 October 2011 14:38, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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