Fading Text

The ability to view the wiki in FadingText mode.

The older text is, the more it fades, until it fades into a readable gray.

age

appearance

3 hours

sparkling black

1 day

pitch black

1 week

very dark grey

3 months

grey

older

light (but readable) grey

Why? Because at times, all you are doing is looking at recent changes and following threads. You hop from page to page doing so. You wouldn't want to have to keep turning it on and off.

I don't know how useful this would be, but it'd certainly be interesting to try out.

-- LionKimbro 2003-10-28 00:25:52

MoinMoin already generates a few rel links (i.e., <link rel="..." ... href="..">, just look at the generated HTML). It would be nice to have even more. What I have in mind specifically, are links to

--MichaelSchuerig 2004-02-14 18:07:00

Currently, the print action leaves hyperlinks alone, so when printed, hyperlinks like those in the table of contents, for example, lose much of their value. That is, they don't really tell the person reading the hardcopy where to look in the document for the section they are interested in. Ideally, the print action should tag a page number onto hyperlinks. For example, My Section should become something like My Section (on Page 2).

Of course, this would require some knowledge of how the browser's print function would layout the page. Is this even possible given today's mainstream browsers?

Another option might be to have the print action add heading numbers to all the headings in the document, and then links can have the heading number added instead of the page number. This would allow the person reading the hardcopy to do a "binary search" of the document for the referenced heading. For example, My Section should become something like My Section (section 2.3). Unfortunately, not all links are to headings. Some might be to arbitrary anchors that the author has added using the Anchor macro, in which case the print action would have to get tricky, like tell the user what section number the anchor is in or immediately before. Arbitrary Anchor Point (in section 2.3)

For web links that point outside the document, the print action would have to do something altogether different. One option might be to dump the actual URL inline. Another might be to append a references section to the end of the document, dump the link URLs there, and add reference markers like [1], [2], etc. to the end of each link in the body of the document.

-- JenChitty 2004-07-02 00:20:28

Yes, there is a preference for this, but it should be the default behavior because CamelCase links are harder to read.

MoinMoin: OutputFormatProposals (last edited 2007-10-29 19:16:44 by localhost)