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it’s been done, and by someone better than y’all

I’m not going to comment on this whole Purple Numbers (Pink Hearts?!) thing, except to say that Joe Clark added ids to every damn element of the HTML version of his book…last summer. (at the time, “unique on the Web”!) I thought it was pretty cool, and have even once sent a link […]

I’m not going to comment on this whole Purple Numbers (Pink Hearts?!) thing, except to say that Joe Clark added ids to every damn element of the HTML version of his book…last summer. (at the time, “unique on the Web”!) I thought it was pretty cool, and have even once sent a link to someone on a mailing list citing a specific section that way.

There’s no visual nothing to show that those ids exist, but I think that’s okay. It’s nice to have secret knowledge once in a while.

3 Responses to “it’s been done, and by someone better than y’all”

  1. On May 31st, 2004 Dorothea Salo said:

    Bah. Gimme my XPointer and I won’t NEED to put ids on every damn paragraph.

  2. On May 31st, 2004 ralph said:

    Personally, I like Mark Pilgrim’s implementation best of the ones I’ve seen.

  3. On May 31st, 2004 Elaine said:

    Ralph: Ain’t that something? I was giggling like a fool: C just shook his head, sadly, as if I’d descended into an unreachable geekitude, which I guess I had.

    Dorothea: So much do I not know from XPointer, although I’ve probably gotten close to it in my dinking around with XSLT. (If I wanted the 10-second intro to XPointer, what would be a good resource?)

Posted on 5/30/2004 in the General category(ies).

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.