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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 23:57:46 BST 2020
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On Jun 11, 2020, at 23:55, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
I do this now. If you check this post of mine:
http://boston.conman.org/2020/03/23.2
you should see a blockquote that links back to the original article. And if
you check the source, you'll see I used the CITE attribute in the BLOCKQUOTE
tag to *also* link to the source.
Nifty :)
( got to say, I like the little hover effect in Quotebacks, which lift the blockquote oh-just-so-slightly from the surrounding text. nice visual emphasize )
[1] The X Windows selection mechanism is quote sophisticated and
supports multiple MIME types (no, really!). I have some text
highlighted in Firefox (under Linux) right now, and I can grab
(among other values):
text/html With the HTML
UTF8_STRING sans HTML
text/x-moz-url URL of the page
You can read more about it here:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Yes, ditto on the mac, curtesy of NSPasteboard:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspasteboard
And yes, all those NS prefixes refers to NEXTSTEP to this day :D