Re: proposal for a new html tag
Brian Behlendorf (brian@wired.com)
Wed, 22 Mar 1995 12:01:29 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Liam Relihan wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
> > Agreed. This is a somewhat different problem than the one which
> > started this thread, but I would really like to see a browser that
> > supported a "flatten" command (maybe "flatten 1 level", "flatten N levels",
> > and "flatten entirely" commands). I don't know if this would require
>
> This is known as "folding" on some editing/hypertext systems.
>
> If we are only interested in folding as a means to allow readers to skim
> through text and selectively reveal interesting bits, then this just
> requires a new tag in HTML and browsers that will fold/unfold text in
> response to this tag.
Folding is good. It's the only way a Unix dweeb like me can handle the
MacOS directory listing. Folding where the act of expansion can involve
a fetch of more HTML text (or other objects) to inline would be
phantastic.
> Aside: Should a recursive fold be allowed ?
Yes, definitely.
Though this seems like it should be a www-html discussion....
Brian
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