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Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com

Mon Mar 1 04:38:31 GMT 2021

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Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> writes:

I mean seriously, I like syntax highlighting as much as anyone

but

advanced syntax highlighting has to be context-sensitive and

possibly

requires looking back in the code block anyways, so might as

well put it

at the end, if you have it at all. But let's just look at the

concept

at all for a second: if you really have such a massive block of

code

that you need syntax highlighting, just put it in its own file

and let

either the browser color it via MIME type or the user can just

open it

in their editor. If your short snippet of code can't be

understood

without syntax highlighting then it's probably a problem with

your code

rather than the presentation...

Agreed, as someone who isn't vision-impaired, who likes syntax highlighting, and who has implemented an Emacs mode that does such highlighting.

i feel it's important that accessibility for the vision-impaired be easier to support in clients than syntax highlighting. More generally, my preference is for gemtext documents to be reasonably accessible by default, rather than requiring special efforts to be made accessible (as on the Web, where accessibility often plays second fiddle to resource-gobbling bling).

Alexis.