Open Bug 46990 Opened 24 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Output links as footnotes

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(Core :: DOM: Serializers, enhancement, P5)

enhancement

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(Reporter: BenB, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

There's a tradition to add URLs to plaintext as footnotes (see an example [1]
yourself). Would be nice, if we would offer that as (non-default IMO) option.

I may hack that together sometime. Just need to figure out, how to express
arbitary-length arrays using XPCOM.

Specs/Implementation:
1. Create facility for footnotes
A function takes a string, stores it, inserts a hint like " [n]" into the
output, and at the end of the output, it outputs something like "\n[n] string"
for each stores footnote)
2. At closing </a>-tag, add a footnote for the href of the opening <a>-tag,
enclosed in angle brackets.

[1] <http://lists.projectcool.com/public/standards/2000-July/000381.html>
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Seems like a very nice feature.

This is related to bug #23953 BTW -- Conversion of footnotes to links. It's the opposite, actually ...
Changing personal priorities. Giving away most of my bugs :-( (reassigning to
default owner).

I will still track these bugs closely. If you need my input, feel free to ask me.

New owner: Please do *not* close these bugs (as WONTFIX or whatever you may
find) unless they are fixed. Rather, reassign to <nobody@mozilla.org>, if you
don't want to work on them.
Assignee: mozilla → anthonyd
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Target Milestone: Future → ---
reassiging.

anthonyd
Assignee: anthonyd → nobody
Keywords: helpwanted
*** Bug 222549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Based on bug 222549, allow this as an option when printing, separate from the
screen display option.
Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"
QA Contact: sujay → dom-to-text
Code: nsPlainTextSerializer.cpp

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: P3 → P5
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