From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Cc: Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Subject: Re: Add A Glossary
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:07:15 -0400
Message-ID: <20200405220715.GA20664@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2004050925090.16227@pseudo>
On 2020-Apr-05, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > > As the definitions are short and to the point, maybe the HTML display
> > > could (also) "hover" the definitions when the mouse passes over the word,
> > > using the "title" attribute?
> >
> > I like that idea, if it doesn't conflict with accessibility standards
> > (maybe that's just titles on images, not sure).
>
> The following worked fine:
>
> <html><head><title>Title Tag Test</title></head>
> <body>The <a href="acid.html" title="ACID stands for Atomic, Consistent, Isolated & Durable">ACID</a>
> property is great.
> </body></html>
I don't see myself patching the stylesheet as would be needed to do
this.
> > I suggest we pursue this idea in another thread, as we'd probably want to
> > do it for acronyms as well.
>
> Or not. I'd test committer temperature before investing time because it
> would mean that backpatching the doc would be a little harder.
TBH I can't get very excited about this idea. Maybe other documentation
champions would be happier about doing that.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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