Re: hyperlinks

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:54 -0400, avijit ghosh wrote:
> Hey as I am I am looking over this. I was just thinking .. Maybe the easiest
> way of doing this is getting <dia:string> to understand basic markup. This
> would make everything work immediately without any real customization
> needed. What I mean by this is for instance if one used BBCode markup
>
> <dia:string>
>   [url=http://www.google.com]Life is
> Rocking[/url],[url=http://www.stupid.com]Life is stupid[/url]
> </dia:string>
>
> If dia:string allowed us to do this it would be simple to get everything
> else to work since URL links would simply show up automagically..

One of the reasons I made the separate edit mode was so that we could
get to use GTK text widgets instead of our own kludge of an edit system.
Then we'd get Pango text markup for free. However, it is not an
extensible markup language, it specifically only deals with typographic
markup.

If we were to do a markup, I would not use a random system like BBCode,
but rather something standard like HTML/XHTML fragments.

-Lars