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Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 10:03:36 BST 2021
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Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> writes:
Using the trailing ``` has a ugly drawback: we have to read all
the
code
block before being able to colorize it. Gemini has a really
nice
property of needing only the first few bytes of each line to
decide its
"type", there's no going back and forward like it is for
markdown
(where
link references can be declared after the link itself) or HTML.
And having had to deal with parsing Markdown - due to Markdown libraries tending to assume that you want HTML output, and not making a parse tree available - i can confirm that this is a nice property indeed.
Fwiw, as someone with disabilities (albeit not vision-related), and who has watched accessibility affordances on the Web get (to put it politely) short shrift over the decades, i tend to agree with raingloom:
That's not what alt text is. It's for screen readers. A bunch of
people
are way into ASCII art so alt text is needed. They are image
descriptions.
I recommend the following instead:
Just name the language on the line before the <pre> block.
ie.:
lua:
```
local function whatever() end
```
This way you aren't making an accessibility feature worse by
trying to
overload it to be some generic metadata container.
Alexis.