Re: [xwiki-devs] [proposal] Use exclusively css to mark links towards new pages

Hi devs, starting from a Wysiwyg implementation issue, we had a discussion yesterday about marking links towards new pages in the wiki. Right now, a question mark ('?') text is appended to the end of the link label and coloured properly. I would like to change this into using exclusively css, for the following reason: * this question mark represents *styling only*: it's as if we'd colour links towards new pages with a different color (the way mediawiki does), therefore this information (either it's a qm, or colour or whatever) should *not appear as part of the document content*, the way a ? text does (the raw HTML contains it). One method of doing this in CSS is appending the text itself (with :after pseudoelement), but that is not cross-browser, and the other method is using an image for the question mark. I'm +1 for the image qm for 2 more reasons (besides the cross browser issue): * this information would not append to document content at all (e.g. if I copied the rendered document content in an ascii editor, I wouldn't have the ?)

* it is a solution closer to the colour solution or marking the link to a new page with a non-character sign (see, for example, the way mediawiki marks external links) -- we can decide to change that anytime and we *don't have to change rendering rules* which makes very much sense to me. Here's the issue on JIRA for this solution: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2803 WDYT?

Happy coding, Anca Luca _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs